# What exactly is the Grim Reaper supposed to be? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 14, 2012, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-the-grim-reaper-supposed-to-be/621941 "2012-05-14T23:56:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Coustralee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Coustralee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coustralee)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-the-grim-reaper-supposed-to-be/621941/21 "2012-05-15T15:11:25Z")
Don’t fear the reaper. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-the-grim-reaper-supposed-to-be/621941/22 "2012-05-15T15:21:18Z")
Death may not be good at board games, but he is [quite a dancer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_of_Death). ---
**Author:** ![md2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@md2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md2000)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-the-grim-reaper-supposed-to-be/621941/23 "2012-05-15T15:30:41Z")
> [@Bozuit](#): > > That’s what happens when you buy canned. But I didn’t have the salmon mousse… ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-the-grim-reaper-supposed-to-be/621941/24 "2012-05-15T15:31:33Z")
> [@Blake](#): > > There is a Reaper, whose name is Death, > And, with his sickle keen, > He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, > And the flowers that grow between. He’s a green bunny rabbit…and the embodiment of the Deadly Sin Wrath. [http://th09.deviantart.net/fs17/PRE/f/2007/180/a/2/Jack\_by\_Airbornemk1.jpg](http://th09.deviantart.net/fs17/PRE/f/2007/180/a/2/Jack_by_Airbornemk1.jpg) There is a Fur named Jack, a bunny colored green, he slew the human race one day, cuz he was kinda mean. When he died he went to Hell, 'twas tasked with reaping souls. Despair the day you see the bunny with eyes like burning coals! ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-the-grim-reaper-supposed-to-be/621941/25 "2012-05-15T15:53:24Z")
[Norm Macdonald](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRn4O2nFV5c) or [Adam Corolla](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9C5yOZJf4s&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-the-grim-reaper-supposed-to-be/621941/26 "2012-05-15T15:57:27Z")
I’m not sure (‘anthropomorphic personification’ is beyond my limited vocabulary), but…well, just don’t fear him. That’s all. -XT ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-the-grim-reaper-supposed-to-be/621941/27 "2012-05-15T15:58:01Z")
“A puh-puh-puh point of view.” ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-the-grim-reaper-supposed-to-be/621941/28 "2012-05-15T16:20:34Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Just don’t try to play chess with Him. He can never remember which way the little horses go. But bridge might well keep him occupied until the last trump. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-the-grim-reaper-supposed-to-be/621941/29 "2012-05-15T17:03:25Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > But bridge might well keep him occupied until the last trump. There _are_ standards, you know… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-the-grim-reaper-supposed-to-be/621941.md?page=1)