This picture of an angel and a grim reaper playing cards and gambling with a patient's life helps me understand the meaning of death. It shows that your life is just a puny existence in the world and as hurtful as that sounds, it's the truth. However, this is why its better to make your life worth it and live most of it happily as you reach old age and finally, death. The way you live your life can be changed at your will such as what career you pursue or if you plan to have kids or not. These are your decisions that affect your life yet you can never change death. Death is permanent. It doesn't matter how long you live or how healthy you are, death is there and will always hang over your shoulder.
My perceptions of death is shown in this picture of how life and death goes hand and hand. You are the line between life and death and either one can pull you over to their side. Looking at the picture, you can't help but root for the reaper because the face of the person on the bed looks miserable and if he keeps on living, he's just stuck laying on his back for the rest of his life and even more worse, no one would come visit him except the nurse. This also shows another one of my perception of death as the easiest way out of misery even when you try your hardest at life and its not rewarding at all. Many see death as something to over think about in the future but the thing is, death can be peaceful and isn't as solemn as it sounds like.
The connection I see with this picture with what we talked about this week was Gilgamesh, because almost everyone including Gilgamesh at one point starts to worry about death and if they made their life worth something or their life was a waste of time. But in the end, as long as you lived your life to the fullest and enjoy it to an amount, then the thought of death wouldn't be something regrettable. In addition another similarity between the two was that death was unavoidable. Gilgamesh twice was offered immortality but he lost it every single time with the sleeping test and the plant that gives immortality. Death is what makes everyone the same because our stories end with the lost of our life.
