References to death in Kneller's Happy Campers

Chapter one: MORDY, the narrator, says he got a job at the Kamikaze pizza place two days after killing himself. Perfect name for a place to be employed if you committed kamikaze/ suicide. He soon finds a place to "live" also. Interesting that he lives somewhere when he is essentially dead.
Mordy also goes to a bar after work named "Stiff Drinks". I wonder if he meets other stiffs there. He meets Uzi there, another character who is dead. He plays pool and "potted the eight ball right into the left pocket, on a fluke.." When you have anything to do with the eight ball, you're in trouble, as in "behind the eight ball." However, it is not a "fluke" to kill yourself.
Many references to death or dying are to be found amongst the pages of this novel. In Chapter three the two friends once again, "always end up at Stiff Drinks". Two stiffs just hanging out together discussing their "future" as deceased members of this new society.
Mordy is invited over to Uzi's folk's house for dinner. He learns more about how Uzi committed suicide. In Chapter five we learn that Uzi "was going into the army, and he was dead set on trying out for a combat unit." Again we hear the play on words "dead set" and foreshadowing of his suicide as he wants to go into combat, a sure wish for the end.
In Chapter six Mordy reads a book his German roommate lent him "about a guy with TB who went to this place in Italy to spend his dying days". Mordy cannot continue to read of such a depressing situation since he didn't even get to enjoy Italy and "dying days". He just offed himself after an apparent love affair that went wrong. Every character in this novel has had "dying days". Throughout the book we learn of the different ways people killed themselves including Mordy's ex-girlfriend who apparently killed herself with pills or poison. They call her a "Juliet". Someone who has no external scars.
As I read on, I am curious to meet other unusual characters and find out what they are all doing in this "hell" . Will Mordy find his girlfriend, Desiree? Who is Leehee and where is she headed? Will Kneller ever find his dog? Why does Uzi regret never going into the army? How can these dead people "live on" in the story?