![]() ![]() This irony has helped make Death one of the most popular characters from Sandman. She is pleasant, down-to-earth, perky, and has been a nurturing figure for both incarnations of Dream. She also wears a silver ankh on a chain around her neck, and has a marking similar to the eye of Horus around her right eye. In The Sandman, Death instead appears as an attractive, pale goth girl dressed in casual clothes - often a black top and jeans. Physically, Death is also opposite to the traditional western culture personification of death, the Grim Reaper. Just as her brother's, Dream's, realm/domain is known as "The Dreaming", Death's realm/domain is known as "The Sunless Lands". In the special issue, it is also revealed that Death was known in ancient Greece as Teleute. Evidently, only she seems to remember these encounters. Unlike most personifications of death, she also visits people as they are born, according to Destruction in the Sandman Special: The Song of Orpheus. Like most personifications of death, Death meets with the recently deceased and guides them into their new existence. ![]() In the DC Universe continuity, Death is both the end of life and a psychopomp. ![]() 2, #8 (August 1989), and was created by Neil Gaiman and Mike Dringenberg. Death of the Endless is a fictional personification of death who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics. ![]()
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