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Here is an article by Robert Hughes going into detail about Damien Hirst's attempt at broaching the Big Ideas in art. I wrote about his religious/Christian references. Hughes talks about Hirst's attempts at fatuous (Hughes' word) referencing: Nature and Death amongst others.
One could also add Eternity to the list, considering Hirst likes to pickle his animals in formaldehyde. But then again, his pieces are either beginning to rot, or to leak their formaldehyde. I suppose this could be a type of conceptual piece that Hirst and his museum collectors could exploit.
It could be called The Five Sensations of Death: Sight, Sound -[ of trickling liquid], Smell - [of rot], Touch, and Taste - [Hirst's concotion of his dead animals on the museum's heating system].
Hirst would just have to be creative on how to make his millions out of a piece that could potentially no longer exist. Oh wait, he's doing that already!