Death, as a motif, represents and illustrates the imminent ending of things, but as a part of ongoing process of life and creation. It represents a breakup, an end, something that is gone for good and not to be retrieved. In poetry, literature and art, death is a common allegorical motif. Symbolically, death is a metaphor for any other kind of ending. Well, in any case, it is an ending to something physical existence, at least. Many philosophies, religions, spiritual systems and scientific disciplines have been trying to answer whether it is in fact an ending or not. On a more positive side, death is just an inevitable part of the cycle of life. There is also the emptiness that stays behind the deceased while we have no actual idea of what happens with the soul of the deceased one, the loss, grief and sorrow of those left behind is undeniable.
This mystery is perhaps the greatest reason why people are afraid of dying and why everything related to it awakens somewhat unpleasant feeling, at least, if not terrifying. We know that physical body decays, but what happens with the soul, if there was such a thing separable from the body? From the most fantastical explanations to scientific approaches, no one can tell for certain. Throughout ages, religions and traditions of the world, people have been trying to unravel this everlasting mystery about death and about what comes after it. Death is something we all know about and yet, none of us fully understands it.
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