Obituary

Van Gogh's grinning skeleton with a lit cigarette became the internet's image of post-exam, post-deadline, post-everything exhaustion. It died of natural causes, which is the only thing that can kill a skeleton.

Portrait: Vincent van Gogh · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Born

2015

Died

2019

Cause of death

Smoked through the final

Last sighting

A finals-week post, 2019

Resting place

Section X, Row 1

Category

art