A contemporary Inferno might also have described this scenario: the vicissitudes of extreme age, of a clear mind being tied to an existence that crumbles in staccato steps yet continues to be experienced; or life no longer experienced in abundance by those with inexorable cognitive decline but cruelly robust physiques. This room could be a very clean and tidy Circle of Hell, and it would be easy to suppose that these women would greet death as a welcome guest.
