Death Looking into the Window of One Dying c.1900 | Jaroslav Panuška

not goin down without a fight

Death Cuts the Life-Thread - Asamkirche, Munich, Germany

Death is often depicted as a reaper of souls, harvesting lives by slicing them down with a scythe. In Munich, there’s an incredibly detailed and curious sculpture of death doing the job with scissors, the blades poised just before the final cut to the thread of life.

Death with the life-thread scissors is poised near the entrance portal, with intricate details on the bones and even teeth, although the skeleton ends just after the torso, making it appear as if it’s emerging suddenly from some hidden realm. The idea is similar to the Greek Fates, where Atropos was depicted as the one who severed the threads of life with shears.

More rococo doom: Death Cuts the Life-Thread on Atlas Obscura!

Catacombe dei Cappuccini. Palermo, Sicily, Southern Italy.

Because keeping your dead monks hanging on the wall in the basement isn’t the least bit creepy.

cosmo’s hot tips on how to get a summer bog body

Morning Star by Paul Fryer

"Lucifer (Morning Star) is an installation at the Holy Church in Marylebone depicting a wax Lucifer suspended by high-power lines. 2008."

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AAAAAAAAAAALICE. HEY AAAAAAAAAALICE.

The Imperial Crypt in Vienna

Kaisergruft

Something refreshingly morbid for your Thursday.

Ghost Girl (by Kevin Francis Gray)

Via

man but this photoset ignores some of my favorite things about this piece

like this

and this

it gives it more of a story i think

The Hanging Coffins of Sagada

The people of Sagada in the Philippines follow a unique burial ritual. The elderly carve their own coffins out of hollowed logs. If they are too weak or ill, their families prepare their coffins instead. The dead are placed inside their coffins (sometimes breaking their bones in the process of fitting them in), and the coffins are brought to a cave for burial.

Instead of being placed into the ground, the coffins are hung either inside the caves or on the face of the cliffs, near the hanging coffins of their ancestors. The Sagada people have been practicing such burials for over 2,000 years and some of the coffins are well over a century old.

by Mike McQueen

Wow! Have not seen this before.

hai death

I blame this on indigogrim and my love of moriarty!aus. kind of related to this old drawing

Someone used the Deathly Hallows’ “death” as a reference…

That was a cool death

No stop you’re not allowed to be this awesome. Fuck.