SIX FEET UNDER: Corpses, Skulls and Skeletons

This chapter deals with the death of the flesh, namely that which will have disappeared within a few months (soft tissue) and that which can last for hundreds, even thousands, of years (bones).

It illustrates what we do not like to see, that which for this reason only exerts a particular fascination: the dead and rotting human body reduced to its bones – our body, as we will never see it!

Anonymous: Allegorie auf die Vergänglichkeit – 17th century