Why is the "Grim Reaper" Grim.......does he not like the job ?

Answer 1

That is such a sad question, come on you can do better .

Answer 2

He's called the Grim Reaper because he deals in death and we consider death to be very grim in deed.

In Touched by an Angel the Angel of Death (Andrew - played by a very sexy John Dye) is far from grim. He was once being interviewed on Richard & Judy - or some such like programme - and said that he sometimes gets a very interesting reaction when he flies. If the person sitting next to him has watched the show, they can get very nervous to be sitting next to the Angel of Death. I found that hilarious and just thought I would like to share it with you lovely people.

May I just add, looking over the answers, that traditionally, the Grim Reaper doesn't take people's lives, he escorts the souls of those who are to die/have just died to their final destination

Answer 3

Grim Reaper likes his job very much! For him, Taking other's life is a happy job. It's just like bad guys like to harm good guys...

Answer 4

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Answer 5

I heard that the 'Grim Reaper' in another language means 'darkness gatherer'

Answer 6

Grim. Germanic. Hooded. Unrecognisable. Corn Godess. Etc.

Answer 7

Come on Guys,Everyone's got a job to do!Don't give the Grim Reaper too much of a bad time afterall he could have been a traffic warden.....

Answer 8

Wouldn't you be Grim if your job was going around and taking people life's all day. That would take a pretty cold hearted person, and not give you anything to smile about. He must like his job he's been doing it for what..about 2000 year's..

Answer 9

The reaper is not grim.

It just seems that way to most because most are afraid to face what they actually render, save for but a few.

That which furnishes and sustains being, conceives, nurtures, cultivates and harvests these and those who by their proven activity, sought and seek universal inter relationship, within mutual and communal consideration of all that surrounds.

All yield to these gathering, those who render in kind are gathered also to these yields.

Answer 10

From the episode of bottom (my favourite appearance of the reaper)

Wait! Wait! What about chess?
Eddie: What about it?
Richie: Hoohh! Why don't we play a game of chess?
Eddie: Umm... because I don't know the rules!
Richie: Well, that's all right, I'll teach you the rules.
Eddie: No. You won't need rules where you're going mate. You'll need
asbestos underpants! 'Cause you're going downstairs, me old
cocker! Ooh, the moans. Ooh, the screams. Ooh, the countless
billions thrown naked into the pit.
Richie: Ah-hhhh-aaawww- naked? Hworrggh! Wait, wait, wait. What about
Cluedo?
Eddie: Nah, they tried it once mate, but all the pieces caught fire.
Richie: No no no, I mean why don't we play Cluedo for my life?
Eddie: Because you always cheat! You always look at the mystery cards!
Richie: How do you know these things?
Eddie: I'm Death!
Richie: Sorry. [Shouting.] How do you know these things?
Eddie: No, I'm Death! I'm Death!
Richie: No, no! Please, please! Give me one more chance. I Spy.
Eddie: Ummmm. Um, okay.
Richie: Okay, I Spy it is. Oh God this is
important. Better make it a goodie. Okay, coming, ready or not.
I Spy with my little eye something beginning with "S".
Eddie: "Submarine".
Richie: No! Ha ha! It was "Scythe". Ha ha! Oh, I win, I get to live!
Thank you Baby Jesus! Thank you all the Baby Jesuses!
Eddie: Hang on, hang on, hang on! "Scythe" doesn't begin with an "S".
Richie: Yes it does!
Eddie: It bloody doesn't, it's a "C"!
Richie: It's not!
Eddie: It is, get a dictionary!
Richie: All right, I've got one here. Here. Scythe, scythe, scythe.
There you are, "Scythe". "S-C-Y-T-H-E".
Eddie: That's "Sither".
Richie: It's "Scythe", it says "Scythe" there! It's in the dictionary,
Jesus wrote this!

Answer 11

Even when you know something is necessary, and that the service you are performing is very important, it may still be something you wish didn't have to be done.

I rather like the idea that the GR is grim, rather than joyful. It would trouble me to think s/he enjoyed taking lives, rather than took them because it's a necessary part of the cycle and in his/her job description.