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Monty Python:
Just the Mousse
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Two of my favorite Personifications:
Neil Gaiman: Death as one of the Endless
Terry Pratchett: Death's Study
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John Donne
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.
Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well
And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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from A Course in Death and Dying:
The Greeks called into existence Thanatos, son of the Night (Nyx) and twin brother of Sleep (Hypnos). He was mainly associated with a peaceful, gentle death, in contrast to his other siblings, for example the bloodthirsty sisters Keres.
In the event of a mortal death, Thanatos would come and cut off a lock of the deceased's hair before taking them to the Underworld and leaving them with another one of his brothers, Charon the ferryman. Charon then carried the dead across the river Styx, from the world of the living to the world of the dead. In this way, Thanatos is also a 'psychopomp', an entity that helps guide the dead into the afterlife.
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Monty Python:
Just the Mousse
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Two of my favorite Personifications:
Neil Gaiman: Death as one of the Endless
Terry Pratchett: Death's Study
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