Death is the spice of life*.
*recycled; or given new life, one might say. (Well, there may be life after Facebook then...)
PS [Wikipedia] The corpse is that of the criminal Aris Kindt (alias of Adriaan Adriaanszoon), who was convicted for armed robbery and sentenced to death by hanging. He was strangled earlier on the same day of the scene.[3] The face of the corpse is partially shaded,[1] a suggestion of umbra mortis (shadow of death), a technique that Rembrandt was to use frequently.
The French art historian Jean-Marie Clarke points out that the navel of the corpse has the shape of a capital R and connects this observation to the fact that Rembrandt worked intensively on his signatures...
Illustration: The Spice Lesson (or something like that) of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp (1632) by Rembrandt
