Figure 1.

First woodcut from the “Ars Moriendi.” moriens, the dying everyman, lies emaciated in bed, surrounded by 3 physicians discussing his case (middle left). The Virgin Mary, Jesus and God are there at the head of the bed. But there are also demons present. The one in the top left is pointing to hell while his scroll says: hell is prepared for you. The second demon, pulling the bedsheets seems to be impatient to drag him there. Another demon, middle right, touching his shoulder, has a scroll inviting moriens to kill himself, while another man with a knife at his own throat (bottom right), demonstrates one way to do this. (https://www.Loc.Gov/resource/rbc0001.2009rosen0020/?sp=24, used under creative commons license).