Much can be seen about a person's life by their death. As Jesus is led to the cross, it's intriguing the story characters that Luke includes. Certainly, there must have been a crowd. From all the accounts that must have been told of that day, Luke includes that of two women who Jesus expresses pity toward (probably concerning the destruction of Jerusalem to come a few decades later), and the help of Simon of Cyrene to carry his cross. In the midst of his own execution, we see compassion from Jesus and the inclusion of an outsider. Hopefully we will reflect the same attitude in far less dire circumstances.