Death is a fictional character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. Discworld's Death is a parody of several other personifications of death. Like most Grim Reapers, he is a black-robed skeleton (usually- he wears the Dean's "Born to Rune" leather jacket in Soul Music, and overalls in Reaper Man) carrying a scythe and a sword with which to dispatch the souls of the recently deceased (the sword is used on royalty, he once told Mort). Unlike most Grim Reapers, he has a real personality agonizing over what it is to be human, adopting an orphaned human child, loving cats. He is an 'anthropomorphized personification of a natural process'/a God of the Discworld and sometimes has his duties carried out by his apprentice Mort, or Death's granddaughter Susan.