On Our Way: The Final Passage through Life and Death

List of Illustrations

I L L U S T R A T I O N S 1 Resurrection 16 2 The 120-meter midlife hurdles 20 3 The Angel of Death taking a soul 22 4 Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf 28 5 Baby and skull 34 6 Triumph over temptation 75 7 The angry are dismembered 76 8 The lustful are smothered in fire and brimstone 77 9 Funeral for a lottery winner 114 10 “Last tag” 127 11 Heads hanging in the gallery of a Kayan house 147 12 Kayan woman dancing and holding a head 148 13 Plastinated section of human brain 174 14 Attending dead women on Slovenia’s Women’s Day 190 15 Goya’s Saturnus gobbles his son 200 16 Death hunts the hunters 220 17 Three revelers meet three corpses 239 18 Black Death victims emerge from the grave 240 19 Dance of the dead 246 V I I 20 Tolkotin cremation 264 21 Deceased displayed in a mummy coffin 290 22 Headstone with lamb on child’s grave 290 23 Plain fieldstone used as grave marker 291 24 Metal grave marker in the shape of a mummy coffin 291 25 Vultures 307 26 Portal of death, on Paris monument 313 27 Charon accepts a dead person to row across the Styx 316 28 Charon tries to rent a rowboat 317 29 Egyptian funeral boat 335 30 War Refugees 357 31 Portrait of Erik and Joan Erikson in old age 385 32 Procession 407 ...