Possible Clues:

• 'Six Feet Under' events
• Demographical statistic
• Aesop Rock "1000 ___"
• At last Des got around to having a hat
• The sad end of everything
• The sad things in store for all of us
• The sad things we all suffer
• The sad ends (6)
• Finishes with the in a final sort of way
• 16 down is the very last thing you'd be doing for them