OK, I was not supposed to be visiting a cemetery today but when in Edinburgh I happened to be passing Greyfriars Kirkyard and I just happened to have my camera with me so I took a few images. This one with a great skeleton is up against the kirk wall as you enter the kirkyard - very difficult to miss. The standing skeleton with the scythe, the King of Terrors, is the 'personification of death'. Below, the coffins and the sexton's tools - spade and turf cutter and the death's head and crossed bones are all further emblems of mortality.
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