In the history of Europe, many art styles can be found that connect human meaning-making with the supernatural. Especially, the expression of death is a central and powerful topic that, in its exploration, has shaped the European mindset. Of course, death is an omnipresent theme that can be found in every social and cultural context, but this does not diminish the value of artistic elaborations throughout the history of the European continent. Even though death as a player and the notion of what happens immediately after death are purely an imagined projection, their materialization and the reflections on the topic have been central in shaping the mind. Obedience, as much as national revolts, has been triggered by the cultivation of meaning in artistic representations of the power dynamics between the living and the afterlife. Even though Death itself is an unapproachable concept in the exploration of its meaning, art allows it to become something more. If, as Godlike or as an equal partner in a dance or dialogue, humans find in death’s paradoxical position a meaningful tool to reshape the living world. In between the cultivation of life<>no-life through the symbolic approach of the human mind, we find the inseparability of dying from living, making it a unicum that frames our experience as living beings.