Death (Discworld)

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Death
Discworld character
Death as illustrated by Paul Kidby in The Art of Discworld.
First appearance	The Colour of Magic (1983)
Last appearance	The Shepherd's Crown (2015)
Created by	Terry Pratchett
Portrayed by	Marnix van den Broeke
Voiced by	Peter Serafinowicz Christopher Lee Wendell Pierce Ian Richardson John Rowe Michael Kilgarriff Stephen Thorne Rob Brydon Nigel Planer
In-universe information
Alias	Bill Door (in Reaper Man)
Species	Personification of Death
Gender	Generally depicted as male[1][2]
Affiliation	Azrael (superior) Albert (manservant) Death of Rats (fellow personification) Death of Fleas (fellow personification)
Weapon	Scythe
Children	Ysabell (adoptive daughter)
Relatives	Mort (son-in-law) Susan Sto Helit (granddaughter)

Death is a fictional character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series and a parody of several other depictions of the Grim Reaper across Europe. He is a black-robed skeleton who usually carries a scythe and on occasion a sword for dispatching royalty. His jurisdiction is specifically the Discworld itself; he being only a minion of Azrael, the Death of all things across the Universes – in much the same way as the Death of Rats is an infinitesimally small part of Death himself.

Pratchett explores human existence through his depiction of death, which becomes more sympathetic throughout the series as it progresses.

Death almost never kills anyone or anything^[3] but — acting in the form of a psychopomp — he merely ensures that when lives comes to an end, they move on to where they believe they should go if they are sentient, which often involves a desert to be crossed.^[4]