Die Butterfly

Die Butterfly
is there a specific butterfly breed that symbolizes either death or heaven?

i wanted to do a portrait with my friends mother, who died almost a year ago, where shes holding a butterfly, but i cant decide on a butterfly to symbolize that shes passed on. is there a butterfly out there that represents heaven or death?

Are you thinking of Acherontia Styx, the Death’s Head Moth from “The Silence of the Lambs”?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%27s_head_moth

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