Timeline for Not-So-Grim Reaper
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:43 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 16, 2015 at 13:48 | comment | added | Joe L. | @cde: Don't Fear the Reaper is a better fit. If I had seen this TVTropes entry before, I wouldn't have posted the question. For some reason I was thinking that this was a fairly recent trope. I'll leave the question up for awhile to see if anyone has any surprise answers. | |
| Mar 15, 2015 at 5:38 | comment | added | user16696 | See tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DarkIsNotEvil/… | |
| Mar 15, 2015 at 5:28 | comment | added | user16696 | @user14111 because a picture of a happy go lucky goth death is a million words | |
| Mar 14, 2015 at 21:04 | comment | added | Lance Leonard | @user14111, it's certainly your right to quibble. My larger point, though, was that different cultures have personified death and portrayed the journey into the undiscovered country in many different ways. Since this seemed germane to the OP's original question... Your mileage may, of course, vary. | |
| Mar 14, 2015 at 19:57 | comment | added | user14111 | @LanceLeonard I'm not sure Hades and Anubis are exactly personifications of death. | |
| Mar 14, 2015 at 19:17 | comment | added | user14111 | Is the image necessary? What does it have to do with the question? | |
| Mar 14, 2015 at 19:07 | history | edited | user14111 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 14, 2015 at 18:33 | answer | added | user14111 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 14, 2015 at 18:26 | comment | added | Lance Leonard | There are many sympathetic characterizations in popular culture and older myth/religions. Going back to Greek mythology, Hades is not always seen as a terrifying figure. For the Egyptians, Anubis is seen as a guide and judge. Various presentations from semi-recent sources might include the TV show Dead Like Me (currently available on streaming services), Pier Anthony's Incarnations series, Bergman's the Seventh Seal, and others. If you wanted to dig into this, perhaps en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_(personification) would be as good a starting place as any. | |
| Mar 14, 2015 at 18:26 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSciFi/status/576811546799669249 | ||
| Mar 14, 2015 at 17:48 | comment | added | Valorum | As the quote goes; "What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the reaper man?" Death has always been seen as a semi-sympathetic character, releasing people from their misery. | |
| Mar 14, 2015 at 17:17 | history | asked | Joe L. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |