The document discusses different ways that death is portrayed in three works: Virginia Woolf's novel To the Lighthouse, Fernando Pessoa's play The Mariner, and Hans Holbein the Younger's painting The Ambassadors. In The Mariner, death manifests as a corpse that causes fear and discomfort. In The Ambassadors, death is symbolized by a distorted skull image that is only visible from an angle, representing decay. In To the Lighthouse, death is observed through mourning and remembering the deceased. All three works depict the temporality of life and the lingering presence of death among the living.