I think my view of death is best summed up by Woody Allen who said, "I'm strongly against it."
His films often take a comedic view of death and obsessive fears of dying. This one is a favorite of mine.
Allen has been influenced by the great Swedish director, Ingmar Bergman, who viewed the subject through a considerably more somber lens, and whose film,
The Seventh Seal, is about a knight who challenges Death to a chess match.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seventh_Seal
Both the Allen and Bergmar films end with a Dance of Death--the concept of a dance with death is another enduring cultural image.
Quote:Dance of Death, also variously called Danse Macabre (French), Danza de la Muerte (Spanish), Danza Macabra (Italian), Dança da Morte (Portuguese), Totentanz (German), Dodendans (Dutch), Surmatants (Estonian), Dansa de la Mort (Catalan) is an artistic genre of late-medieval allegory on the universality of death: no matter one's station in life, the Dance of Death unites all. The Danse Macabre consists of the dead or personified Death summoning representatives from all walks of life to dance along to the grave, typically with a pope, emperor, king, child, and labourer. They were produced to remind people of the fragility of their lives and how vain were the glories of earthly life. Its origins are postulated from illustrated sermon texts; the earliest recorded visual scheme was a now lost mural in the Saints Innocents Cemetery in Paris dating from 1424–25.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danse_Macabre
