Artist Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450–1516) offers one example in the long tradition of deathbed scenes as morality theater.
“On July 18, Brytney Cobia, a physician in Birmingham, Alabama, took to Facebook to talk about caring for Covid-19 patients. ‘One of the last things they do before they’re intubated is beg me for the vaccine,’ Cobia wrote. ‘I hold their hand and tell them that I’m sorry, but it’s too late.’ Cobia’s post, which has since been shared 16,000 times on the social platform and amplified in local and national news outlets, proved to be an early entry in a grisly new genre of pro-vax deathbed confessions from the unvaccinated, where the dying admit their mistakes and beg others not to repeat them. ...”
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