Death is a wonderful character

I’m a big fan of death. Not in the psychopathic or, uh, necrophiliac kind of way thanks. It says more about you than me that you even went there. No, I’m a fan of Death as a person, a character.

The sad loss of Terry Pratchett brought something into focus to me recently. I’m a big discworld fan, it’s quite apparent in my own writing and nowhere more so than in the personification of death itself. Pratchett’s Death is a phenomenal character full of depth and the dark humor that appeals to my p...