User blog comment:Hybrid Shadow/Teaser/@comment-25205574-20150422043722

So, here's one of my probably many guesses.

The second picture could represent people dying from ash suffocation, and the person next to the man sitting down unlike the others that are laying, could have been Pliny the Elder as he died trying to rescue victims dying from the 482°F (250°C) hot surges. They could have been in a high building, possibly the Temple of Apollo, to escape the 25 meters deep tephra that rained down for six hours.