Rachmaninoff and Böcklin

 I wasn't at the funeral for my twenty-seven-year-old nephew, Mitch, today, so want to share something that bubbled up, as things occasionally do, that seemed pertinent. The Rachmaninoff piece was inspired by the Böcklin painting, Isle of the Dead. Here is the painting: 

And here is a link to the piece:

Seems to me that the composer chose to end the piece the way he, with the flute on the five of the chord and not on the tonic, to indicate the unfinished nature of grief.