News Flash: Bela Lugosi, Still Dead

I've often thought that there's some interesting theorizing to be done about the old Bauhaus classic, "Bela Lugosi's Dead." If Bela Lugosi is, metonymically speaking, death itself, does that mean that death is somehow vanquished or conquered? Is the song an affirmation of the eventual triumph of life over death? Or does Bela Lugosi's death betoken some kind of second death, a more radical death beyond death itself? Well, perhaps the time has come for younger generations of music fans to deal with these vexing questions and who better to pose them than Peter Murphy, Trent Reznor, and TV on the Radio?