Jesus Christ Superstar has Judas’s Death and The Crucifixion.
Evita starts out with her funeral and Che singing O What A Circus
CATS has Grizabella going to the Heavenside Layer after she dies
I thought of another one.
A Dying Cubs Fan’s Last Request
The song is full of humorous references to the Cubs, and the long-suffering futility (at the time) of being a Cubs fan. The video is of Steve Goodman singing on one of the rooftops overlooking Wrigley Field.
Goodman died of leukemia at 36, and some of his ashes were scattered at Wrigley.
Yes, I guess I should have been more clear; I’m interested in the narrator describing his death as something that has already occurred. That is, taken literally, he’s singing this song after he’s dead.
Does Wuthering Heights count? The narrator is dead and remembers being told she was dying.
D.O.A. by Bloodrock.
Then I looked straight at the attendant
His face is pale as it can be
He bends and whispers something softly
He says there’s no chance for me
One of the bleakest top 40 singles ever.
Johnny Cash’s “Sam Hall” is on the gallows, although not yet swinging when the song ends.
In the spirit of the OP: In Jesus Christ Superstar Judas comes back after his death to sing “Superstar.” However, Jesus does not come back.
The radical religious had a field day with that idea.
I love that song! Unfortunately ioioio skunked us in post #11.
Not only dies but is dead before the end of the song
Two Hangmen by Mason Profit
Metaphorically dead - Assassin by John Mayer
Not quite the same thing, but the last verse of the Tommy Makem song “Butcher Boy” is a suicide note, written in first person, and read after the writer is dead:
There was an old song by the Marshall Tucker Band, I think it was “Fire On The Mountain”, where the singer says something in one of the later verses about his widow standing by his grave. Sorry, it’s been years since I heard it, I don’t remember the exact lyrics.
Good one!
Dickie Lee’s Patches ends:
I hear a neighbor telling my father
He says a girl name of Patches was found
Floating face down in that dirty old river
That flows by the coal yards in Old Shanty Town
Patches, oh what can I do
I swear I’ll always love you
It may not be right
But I’ll join you tonight
Patches I’m coming to you
Thank you so much for starting this thread, and reminding me of the wonderful Who Done It by Harry Nilsson, where the narrator’s story finishes with the lines:
“And then he looked me in the eye
And said have mercy on his soul
And I was hanged
By the neck
Until dead”
So I think that qualifies.
Haven’t heard it in years.
Long Black Veil damn, somebody already got that one.
Detroit Rock City…rats.
Alright then. Tonight Is The Night I Fell Asleep At The Wheel, Barenaked Ladies
Oh, and I Love The Night, Blue Oyster Cult
Weird Al’s “Everything You Know is Wrong:”
I was just about to mail a letter to my evil twin
When I got a nasty papercut
And, well, to make a long story short
It got infected and I died
That feller is undead, sorry. 
Well…not at first.
Zager and Evans highly anticipated follow up to the massive “In the Year 2525” was “Mr. Turnkey”, a charming ditty about a rapist who is narrating his tale to the jailer, only to find out before doing so he has nailed his arm to the wall and is bleeding to death! Someone actually thought this was a good idea, for an A-side of a single, in 1969!