What the hell is that?

Also, I don't know if I was hallucinating or not, but I saw Death once. It was back in highschool when I was hard into drugs of all kinds (I'm not anymore), and one day I was sober and didn't want to be so I was scrounging around, and happened to find some old Zoloft antidepressant pills I had been prescribed a year before. They had been sitting in my desk drawer for about ten months or so. I took eight of them. It was an absolutely horrible idea. I had to force myself to walk downstairs, because the bathroom was down there and I needed to empty my stomach, but it was hard because every ten steps or so I felt like I was going to pass out. I finally made my way to the first floor, and as I limped into the bathroom I started to feel strange. I had passed out before this, and I knew what it was like. This was different. I was going blind and my entire body was turning to jelly. I knew I was dying. I saw in front of me a black figure just standing there, and though it had no features I could tell it was looking at me. I recognized it as Death, and that knowledge forced me to go on. I refused to die. The figure disappeared and I fell into the bathroom, on my knees in front of the toilet, which is where I spent the next five hours or so, vomitting.

>>It was back in highschool when I was hard into drugs of all kinds (I'm not anymore), and one day I was sober and didn't want to be so I was scrounging around, and happened to find some old Zoloft antidepressant pills I had been prescribed a year before.
>>It was back in highschool when I was hard into drugs of all kinds
>>I was hard into drugs

>>2
It's a moth.

I always like to think that death is a cheerful young guy who loves his job. Just for the irony. Don't have any real idea what death would be like, though. Or if there even is a being that conducts us out of the mortal coil.

Depends, what rules of death are we using, if it's Milton's Paradise Lost model, then he would obviously be evil looking, possibly deformed.

>At first, and call'd me Sin, and for a Sign
>Portentous held me; but familiar grown,
>I pleas'd, and with attractive graces won
>The most averse, thee chiefly, who full oft
>Thy self in me thy perfect image viewing
>Becam'st enamour'd, and such joy thou took'st
>With me in secret.

>Pregnant by thee, and now excessive grown
>Prodigious motion felt and rueful throes.
>At last this odious offspring whom thou seest
>Thine own begotten, breaking violent way
>Tore through my entrails, that with fear and pain
>Distorted, all my nether shape thus grew
>Transform'd: but he my inbred enemie
>Forth issu'd, brandishing his fatal Dart
>Made to destroy: I fled, and cry'd out Death;

The rape of Sin by her father, Satan, and the subsequent birth of Death.

In my mind, I prefer to see death as some one you have never known but recognize immediately, one who gives you a sense of peace and utter calm and understanding, not the terrifying apparition we commonly associate him with.

>>1>>4

why a moth, TheMadLeper?

>>6
Moth man!
Though in all seriousness I have to agree with TheMadLeper, it makes sense. Moth flutters in, lands on someone near death, they pass, the moth flutters off with their soul.

>>7
Maybe just flutters out of their chest via ghost powers.

plus moths are always drawn to "the Light"

>>9

oooh good point

>>1
It's not a moth that you will see before you die, but a fly.

>>11
Lord of the Flies/satan reference i see?

Personally?
I think Death might just be something really cute.
Just to fuck with the people who are near death.
"D'aawww, it is a cute little butterfly! It must be a sign that I will live~!"
And then, the butterfly snatches their soul and floats away with it merrily.

>>12

Actually I'm pretty sure it was Dickenson

>>14
I would say you are right, after a little searching. I was overthinking the matter methinks.

>>12

Beelzebub is not Satan ffs!

Before you die, you see the ring.

This is my favorite incarnation of Death.
It is from Bretagne (or Brittany I think).
It not evil, it's just neutral.
It is suposed to be the last person that died each years who do the job.

I personnaly think that Death is not a bad thing. It's sad but not bad or evil.

>>16
I'm tired of this shit. I'm clearing it here and now.
BEELZEBUB=/=AZAZEL=/=LUCIFER
That is all.

>>19

Oh my fucking god, you're stupid.
Those three are all different beings.

>>20
I KNOW they're three different beings. That's why I said does NOT equal.
=: equal
=/=: does not equal.
Do ye ken, boy?

Who was the artist who did the "Breton" style pic?

>>22
Not sure, but I'm surprised that a certain gunslinging saint hasn't appeared yet.

Personally, I think Death resembles Terry Pratchet's Diskwold Death. I don't know why, byt I just fell like that is the best image for him.

>>1

reminds me of Carlos Castaneda.
And a really, really unpleasant trip.

>>18

i agree but i doubt they would always be neutral. i mean if it's a person who dies that has to do the job then i doubt they would be neutral about it. im pretty sure we got some fucked up people who ended up with the responsibilty.

If death is nutral, why is he one of the four horsemen of the apocolypse?

and i'd imagine death as some kind of old man inn a tattered/worn suit that'd you'd wear for funerals...

and would he carry a chess set with him?