This issue moves beyond the binary of life and death to explore how the gray areas in between precarious life, slow death call into question assumptions about the social in social theory. In these collateral afterworlds, where the line between life and death is blurred, the presumed attachments of sociality to life and solitude to death are no longer reliable. The contributors focus on the daily experiences of enduring a difficult present unhinged from any redeeming future, addressing topics such as drug treatment centers in Mexico City, solitary death in Japan, Inuit colonial...