The Death card shows the Messenger of Death – a skeleton dressed in purple cape. The skeleton represents the part of the body which survives long after life has left it. Death carries a black flag decorated with a red rose, reflecting beauty, purification and immortality. Together, these symbols reveal that death isn’t just about life ending. Death is about endings and beginnings, birth and rebirth, change and transformation. There is beauty in death, and it is an inherent part of being alive.