Mummy vs Wolfman

The Mummy is used to represent the preservation of the physical body by mummification since it is believed that the physical body is the object that houses life.  The act of preserving the body by mummifying it was their way of embracing the afterlife.The Wolfman is used to represent the ways death is perceived in Eastern religion.  As with The Wolfman, there is a desire for unconditional death, or Thanatose.  There is an existing   notion that the soul may ascend to higher regions of existence where there will be a transition of consciousness from one field of manifestation to another, or reincarnation.

It is impossible for mankind to experience nor enjoy total death because the term experience belongs to the category of consciousness and existence which upon death no longer existence no longer exists.  The previous beliefs that the body can be preserved was unsuccessful because the human body cannot be preserved.