The End: Gilgamesh Dead?

on the last tabletWhat is the netherworld? Gilgamesh asks Enkidu. The last tablet of the book is really weird. It seems that Gilgamesh dies. He is living with the gods and Enkidu on heaven. Accidentally he through a drum stick to the netherworld and Enkidu decides to go for it. Although he gets trapped. Gilgamesh, through the help of the gods frees his companion of the house of the dead. If Enkidu reapers this means that Gilgamesh dies. Both are dead. Which is actually an exelent ending for the book. On this chapter one of the questions of the course is answered, according to the epic. Where are we going? He spoke of all the spirits living in the netherworld, all humans. If we would die in the story we would go to the house of the dead, the netherworld.