The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann
from the grandfather's death in childhood to Joachim's, in Chapter II: The Baptismal Font and the Two Figures of the Grandfather and Chapter VI: Naphta, the Snow, and the Death of Joachim.
The Iliad
Homer
the short life that Thetis confirms to Achilles in Book I, and the prophecies of Patroclus in Book XVI and of Hector in Book XXII, spoken as they die.
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
Machado de Assis
the dead man who begins with his death (ch. I), the delirium before Nature (ch. VII), his mother's agony (ch. XXIII), his father's death (ch. XLIV), Nhã-loló's epitaph (ch. CXXV), the philosophy of epitaphs (ch. CLI), and the negations (ch. CLX).
The Idiot
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
the pain of knowing the hour of the guillotine (ch. II of Part One), the condemned man waiting for the firing squad (ch. V of Part One), Countess Du Barry asking the executioner for one more little minute (ch. II of Part Two), Hippolyte inviting everyone to his funeral (ch. X of Part Two), the Explanation and the shot without a cap (ch. V of Part Three, ch. VII of Part Three), Nastasya's body under the oilcloth (ch. XI of Part Four) and the Conclusion (ch. XII of Part Four).
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy
colleagues who feel joy that it was he who died and not I (ch. I), the night of the discovery (ch. V), the syllogism about Caius (ch. VI), Gerasim, who says that everyone will die (ch. VII), the slope he went down imagining he was climbing (ch. IX), and the light in place of death (ch. XII).
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
banishment treated as death in scene 3 of Act III, the mourning for Juliet in scene 5 of Act IV, and the deaths in scene 3 of Act V.
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
the unknown country of the monologue in scene 1 of Act III, the death of Polonius in scene 4 of Act III, and the graveyard of scene 1 of Act V.