“You go to certain death.” “All death is certain.” — Stoicism before the charge
The heaviest line in Kingdom of Heaven, and it hits every time. Top panel: Balian’s squire staring down a Crusader army, seeing only the arrow...
Death
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I’m Not a Wizard (Famous Last Words)
Tweet: “I’m not a wizard.” Fast forward 30 sessions and there’s a dramatic death scene. The wizard who wasn’t a wizard is lying there, the...
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The Oldest Story Still Hits Different
Something that gives me chills: the fact that the oldest surviving story we know — the Epic of Gilgamesh — was written by the oldest...
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The boat of Charon
The boat of Charon crosses “the river of woe”, the Acheron, carrying Death and the wandering shadows of the dead. Fresco in the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi,...
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"Flowers? Human skulls? Two for the price of one!"
The Flower Vendor РVictor-Emile Prouv̩ (1882).
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Alexander Betrayed
The famous leader Alexander the Great lies on a bed and drinks a medicine that was prepared for him by Philip, his doctor, accused of...
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Souls on the banks of the Acheron
Souls on the banks of the Acheron Hades was a cruel god whose sole purpose was to increase the number of souls in his kingdom;...
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It's the same
Anaxagoras replied to a man who grieved because he was dying in a foreign land: “πανταχόθεν όμοια εστίν η είς Άδου κατάβασις” The descent to...
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Till Death Do Us Part
Sigismund Christian Hubert Goetze, Till Death Do Us Part, 1910, oil on canvas, Walker Art Gallery, London.
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A bored death
The Weary Death ~ Pavel Karlovich Wenig (1915)
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Hero deaths
Achilles: Died from an arrow striking his heel. Hercules: Died from centaur blood acid. Icarus: Picture of hot wings.