Death (personification)

:Grim Reaper redirects here. For other uses see Grim Reaper (disambiguation)

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Death, personified is a personification of death as an anthropomorphic figure or a fictional character, who has existed in mythology and popular culture since the earliest days of storytelling. Because the reality of death has had a substantial influence on the human psyche and the development of civilization as a whole, the personification of Death as a living, sentient entity is a concept that has existed in all known societies since the beginnings of recorded history.

Related Topics:
Personification - Death - Anthropomorphic - Fictional character - Mythology - Civilization

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Examples of death personified are:

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• In modern-day European-based folklore, Death is known as the Grim Reaper.
• In the Septuagint version of the Bible, Death is portrayed in the book of Tobit (considered apocryphal by Protestants) as Azrael, the Islamic angel of death.
• Father Time is sometimes said to be Death.
• A psychopomp is a spirit or deity whose task is to conduct the souls of the recently dead into the afterlife.
  
 
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