ABSTRACT
Death eventually comes to everyone-poet and peasant, saint and sinner, the wise and the
foolish. It is a fate that people share not only with each other but with all living things.
The inevitability of death and the shortness of life have been expressed frequently in
anonymous folklore, for example:
as well as in literature:
No man can be ignorant that he must die,
nor be sure that he may not this very day.
