What Discworld’s Death Can Teach Us About Empathy

What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the reaper man?

‘Death’s Study’ from the Discworld Emporium

There has long been this notion that Death — that is, the anthropomorphic personification of the natural process — is a cruel, unjust villain. He appears at your door one night in his dark robe holding a scythe and takes your soul off to the Great Beyond.