The medieval ethos of Christian care of the dead took a different turn: that of fear. Burial came to be draped with the medieval imagination of hell and purgatory and the terrors of dying unprepared. The Eucharist has suffered wherever it has been used for discipleship purposes, funerals were also abused. The medieval mind tended to feel that if one could scare the hell out of people it might be possible to scare them out of hell. Death became a threat used to discipline the living. Who could ignore a prayer such as that used in York province: “”deliver him from the cruel fire of the boiling pit? Most medieval parish churches had graphic mural paintings of the last judgment (the doom) over the chancel arch with the torments of the dammed displayed with gusto. Late medieval drama often included a hell’s mouth into which unrepentant sinners were dragged. Dante shows us the whole scheme at it most sophisticated level; for others it was equally vivid and real.