It is so obvious to note that no one really feels pity or sadness for the death of Ivan Illyich. There is no exception and they feel lucky that they are not the ones who died. Colleagues think about promotions, his friends think about how to behave at the funeral and his wife worries about legal ways to obtain more compensation from the government. Ivan's funeral doesn't even affect their plan for the happy night: the card game. There is no human warmth, but full of ugly humanity in the story. Really ironic, isn't it? The attitude of Peter and these people seems to represent their society's vision of death: normal and