"Its most important contents were two human skeletons."  From English Illustrated, 1907.

From Pearson's, 1911.

Death loves a carefully pruned hedge, as we learn in De Kapelle der Dooden by Abraham a Sancta Clara, 1741.

From Die Muskete, 1912.

"With an unearthly yell the unknown sprang upon Lion Limb," from Lion Limb, the Boy King of the South Sea Islands, 1867.

"The Proposal.  I'll love you while Life Lasts."  From 1896.

"Death saw a Patient who pulled out his purse. / And a Doctor who took the sum. / But he left them be, for he knew the 'Fee' / Was a prelude to 'Faw' and 'Fum.'"  Color lithograph by Edward Hull, 1827.

Here's a shrouded skeleton by Walter Crane, 1915.