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The Latin cross, initially a religious symbol, has evolved to stand for death and rebirth.
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| The heraldic dagger is used to stand for people who are dead in geneology or obsolete words in dictionaries.
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| The crossed Latin crosses even further suggest death and are used to mean died in battle in some texts. |
| The cross with equal arms is found often with various meanings. In some systems, this symbol means death, end and beginning on inscriptions on coins. |
| This symbol is likely a gestalt for similar symbols, including the Sigrune (rune of victory) that is associated with death, along with similar lightning bolt symbols. |
| It is likely that the image of Death as a man with a sickle came from this image of the harvest god Saturn as holding a sickle as in this icon. |
| This is another Latin cross, associated with death, as on tombstones and at funerals. |
| Although this symbol for Pluto has acquired various meanings, astrologically it is a symbol for death, as Pluto is the god of the dead in Roman mythology. |
| The rune was a symbol for a the Norse gods (Aesir), but acquired other meanings, such as waterfall. In the Viking Age it stood for Loke, sort of a death god. |
| This rune for Tyr, the god of law and order in German mythology but earlier a god of victory, also was called Tac in Anglo-Saxon tradition and was a rune of death. |
| This was reportedly the Germanic rune of death. It also means man dies. |
| This is a modern symbol from comics for annihilation of ideas or moment of death. |
| A sign from alchemy for death's head or the skull (caput mortuum), and it later meant residue. |
| This symbol has a variety of meanings, including the empty set, a good road, and a deceased female in biology. |
