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</span>That is a poem of encouragement and reverence for life and death. It informs us of the fact that everyone dies, no matter how great or small one is in life.
I had to do something like this, and put that years later someone was wandering the catacombs (after the wall he walled fortunato up with started to crumble) Fortunato's body was found and montressor confessed.
If you have ever read the comic section of the sunday paper, that is a comic strip.