A guy becomes Death. I don’t remember how. He has a scythe, and he’s mowing wheat with it. Each stalk of wheat is a person. (That is, when he cuts a stalk, a person dies.) IIRC his he cuts some stalks and they are his wife and family. He goes a little nutty and starts mowing like a madman – which was WWI and/or WWII. I don’t remember how it ends, unless he comes to his own stalk of wheat.
Ray Bradbury - “The Scythe.”
I’ll have to check that out. Sounds like a great movie.
“Yew ought not to talk lahk thet! Yew jus’ a boah”.
Oh wait. You said scythe, didn’t you, John?
D&R
Quasi
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I can’t believe I didn’t remember that.
Thanks.
S’okay - we’re none of us getting any younger. 
just realized (two days later) that I wrote “movie” instead of “story” here…
Is ok. IIRC, they made the story into an episode of “Night Gallery” or some show like that, so you weren’t far off.
Terry Pratchett parodies this theme in “Reaper Man” when Death takes a Vacation and begins working in a Wheat field cutting down Wheat.
I am become Death, destroyer of wheat fields.
Yeah, some great bits in that. The lady who hires him asks “Can you use a scythe?”, and he answers I THINK THE ANSWER TO THAT WOULD BE “YES”
Then, once he’s out in the field working, she remarks on his unusual technique, of cutting a single blade of grass at a time. WHAT OTHER WAY IS THERE?
That was the first Discworld book I read, courtesy of Spiny Norman and Shayna.