Yea but why he has to carry a scythe? Would be so much better if he carried a flower in white robe.
Geahk on
Also, this depiction only goes as far back as the Charles Dickens story, A Christmas Carol, where he was meant to be ominous to force Scrooge to change. Death is not normally meant to be scary.
Betanumerus on
A joke-telling cab-driver-like reaper would be more interesting than a grim one.
TheS413 on
Where’s the obligatory JJ reference. There’s is the only version of death I now accept
SympathyGirl on
Everyone should read the death books in the discworld series By Terry Pratchett
nambiguasu on
I would say it’s more a 50/50 representation. When I was a kid, I used to read a comic book called “Turma da Monica”. One of the many stories inside it was that of monsters and ghosts, living the after life in a cemetery. The Lady Death was a pretty chill character to them, but frightening one to the living.
StevenTheNeat on
hear me out. hear me out.
cain, the first murderer according to the christian bible, murdered his brother because his own sacrifice was not accepted by god as atonement. in order to show humans how badly they screwed up, something had to die, so abel, his brother, sacrificed meat. cain sacrificed vegtables.
cain was a farmer.
a reaper. with a literal scythe, probably.
so I think by this point in my argument, you can see where I’m going
what if the grim reaper is the cursed soul of cain, cursed to forever murder, because he invented murder?
ElmertheAwesome on
He’s just your friendly neighborhood psychopomp.
Agent_Catlina on
This reminds me of a date with death lol
KlaraHimmel_Endless on
I am love with The Sandman‘s Death (comics and Netflix series). If you don’t know her, please check her out. She is the most friendly and kindest death you ever can imagine. She changed everything I felt about dying and the afterlife.
Delicious-Remove-748 on
So Blue Oyster Cult was right.
amendersc on
Death in >!death’s door!<is a really good example of a nice grim reaper (also a funny one)
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Yea but why he has to carry a scythe? Would be so much better if he carried a flower in white robe.
Also, this depiction only goes as far back as the Charles Dickens story, A Christmas Carol, where he was meant to be ominous to force Scrooge to change. Death is not normally meant to be scary.
A joke-telling cab-driver-like reaper would be more interesting than a grim one.
Where’s the obligatory JJ reference. There’s is the only version of death I now accept
Everyone should read the death books in the discworld series By Terry Pratchett
I would say it’s more a 50/50 representation. When I was a kid, I used to read a comic book called “Turma da Monica”. One of the many stories inside it was that of monsters and ghosts, living the after life in a cemetery. The Lady Death was a pretty chill character to them, but frightening one to the living.
hear me out. hear me out.
cain, the first murderer according to the christian bible, murdered his brother because his own sacrifice was not accepted by god as atonement. in order to show humans how badly they screwed up, something had to die, so abel, his brother, sacrificed meat. cain sacrificed vegtables.
cain was a farmer.
a reaper. with a literal scythe, probably.
so I think by this point in my argument, you can see where I’m going
what if the grim reaper is the cursed soul of cain, cursed to forever murder, because he invented murder?
He’s just your friendly neighborhood psychopomp.
This reminds me of a date with death lol
I am love with The Sandman‘s Death (comics and Netflix series). If you don’t know her, please check her out. She is the most friendly and kindest death you ever can imagine. She changed everything I felt about dying and the afterlife.
So Blue Oyster Cult was right.
Death in >!death’s door!<is a really good example of a nice grim reaper (also a funny one)