Metamorphosis as a process that closes the narrative of a human life takes the place of death.  But metamorphosis as a product is structured according to the logic of funerary commemoration and memorialisation.  The dead person himself ceases to exist, but enjoys a survival of a kind, through modes of both continuity and transformation: continuity, through the memory-images stored in the minds of those who knew him in life; transformation, in the surrogate existence of funeral memorial and funeral inscription.