This work compares two profiles of artist in many ways similar, who randomly crossed their destinies and for which the role of a early death has acquired similar meanings. For both, the body was a central theme of artistic production, and, in the case of both, the body was the body that passed away quickly, seemingly interrupting an incomplete artistic parabola, actually recalibrating it in the light of the end of life. By comparing Derek Jarman with Pier Paolo Pasolini, the issue of art as a sense of existence is addressed and I summarise his role in the world.