Kamikaze`s face
Corporal Yukio Araki was a 17-year-old kamikaze pilot. The photograph was taken on May 26, 1945, and shows him holding a puppy with four other pilots. Araki died the next day, committing suicide with his airplane near Okinawa.

Shell shock
This photograph was taken during the Battle of Courcelette in 1916 in France. The man is curled up in a trench, demonstrating shell shock, which recalls the empty, non-functional, and weak gaze of a soldier tormented by war.

Vulture and girl
In 1993 in Sudan near the town of Ayod, this girl`s parents left her for a short time to run for food from an airplane. The weak child also tried to reach the food. The bird landed next to her and watched her while she rested. Kevin Carter, a South African photojournalist who took the photograph, committed suicide six months later. He was harshly criticized for taking this photo. Carter tried to scare away the bird, but often regretted not helping the child afterward.

Mother and son`s pre-death selfie
Gary Slok, a 15-year-old teenager, went on a trip to Kuala Lumpur with his mother Petra Langveld. When they took their seats on flight MH17, they decided to take a joint selfie. Three hours after taking the selfie, their plane was shot down and crashed on the Ukraine-Russia border.

Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole
Robert Falcon Scott (in the middle) organized the Terra Nova expedition starting in 1910, hoping to be the first to conquer the geographic South Pole. They reached the South Pole on January 17, 1912, but a Norwegian team had arrived there 34 days earlier. Their return journey home was harsh and difficult, and the team`s health began to deteriorate: many suffered frostbite and other injuries. A few mortal remains, diaries, and photographs were found 8 months later. Scott`s last diary entry was on March 29, 1912, the likely date of his death.

Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov`s remains
The 50th anniversary of the October Revolution was decided to be celebrated with a space flight. Vladimir Komarov was chosen as the commander of the Soyuz-1 spacecraft, and Yuri Gagarin was selected as his backup. Both cosmonauts knew the capsule was not safe for flight, but no one dared to postpone or cancel the mission. Komarov decided not to refuse the mission, not wanting Gagarin to be sent in his place and die instead. Gagarin appeared at the launch and demanded a spacesuit for himself as well, but he was refused. The funeral photograph shows an open casket with Komarov`s charred remains. It is said that Komarov himself requested before the flight that, in case of death, the funeral be held with an open casket to show the government responsible for his death.

Girl from concentration camp draws home
A girl who grew up in a concentration camp was asked to draw a home while she was in a room for mentally disturbed children. It`s hard to say what the lines mean to her, possibly chaos or barbed wire. There is very little information about this girl; it is only known that her name is Teresa. Her eyes are no longer those of a naive child, but of a child who has already endured horrors at such a young age.

Eternal love
The skeletons in this photograph are about 2800 years old. Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania determined that both died around 800 BCE. They were found in 1972 at an archaeological site in Hasanlu, Iran. Both are male skeletons and possibly relatives. The city where they were was burned during war. They may have hidden from soldiers but quickly died from smoke. In their last moment, they pressed close to each other before death.

Monk performs ritual for deceased man
On November 25, 2011, in the railway station hall in Taiyuan, Shanxi, China, an elderly person was noticed lying down for too long. When people decided to check on him, they felt his body was cold, and emergency medics confirmed the man was dead. A monk who was waiting for his train performed a religious ceremony for the man to help his soul find peace.