How does Wolfgang use visual and linguistic pathos?

Since I am analyzing a cartoon in which the pictures overlap the use of language, there is at least the same amount of linguistic and visual pathos.
The story is about a boy whose mother dies and is on her way to heaven. On her way to heaven her life passes by her very eyes, such as the title is. In the pictures, this way to heaven is portrayed in visual pathos. There are pictures on which she flies through the town like if she was an angel recalling various episodes of her life. Visual pathos implemented by showing the reader how she flies as she is pulling a white tail with her. When she finally arrives in heaven, see page 226-227, the background colors change from white to black. This could represent the desolation associated with the death and the place you go to once you are dead. The quote “…our heart stopped, the first “stop” on our road to “dead”” illustrates very well what it is meant by being dead – not breathing no more. “The road to dead…” is a description of the death as being a journey from the earth to the heavens. On this journey many things happen and you can almost say that Wolfgang considers this journey as very nice and useful to adjust between these two worlds. Another use of pathos in a visual sense is how they travel to heaven. The mode of travel is a kind of space vehicle and the quote “…light at the end of the tunnel…” is very common expression for dieing.
In conclusion this cartoon pictures a very sad part of life in a very funny way using a lot of linguistic and visual pathos.