What is the Grim Reaper?

Question

This may sound like a darkish question but everyday i see picture of the Grim Reaper on websites and poster and got curious, How did the Idea of the Grim Reapers come up? What is the Story Behind him?( means does he have a Myth) and How the Grim Reaper came to be The Grim Reaper? ( Also meaning What got them cursed to a life like that) I know that they may be just myth but ive been curious and just felt like asking your answer are much apprieciated :)

Answer 1

he is the angel of death.

Answer 2

You guys have a misunderstanding of what the grim reaper does. People die through one of two ways. They live to their body s natural end, or they attract misfortune. In the former case, if the grim reaper does not claim the soul, and guide it to an afterlife/new life, the soul stays in the body like a captain going down with the ship. In the latter case, the soul wants to die, and so attracts bad fortune to it. If the soul does not die through misfortune (which a reaper arranges so as to give cause to leave the body), the soul basically destroys itself, becoming a dead soul. Btw, that s what a reaper is, a soul that can t feel anymore. Reapers help themselves by guiding bodies, renewing the souls of the former living, they renew their souls. And the souls they guide return to life. You are not "killing people", nor is this evil. Reapers protect the living from decay, and send them on tto new life.

Answer 3

yeah~it is a darkish...sinister question...but i suppose that sorta is the meaning of grim. The Grim Reaper~a personification of death as a living, sentient entity is a concept that has existed in many societies since the beginning of recorded history~in Western cultures death is usually given this name & is shown as a skeletal figure carrying a large scythe, and wearing a midnight black gown, robe or cloak with a hood, or sometimes, a white burial shroud. And for your entertainment~It is also the name of a British heavy metal band, a Marvel comic supervillian (brother of Wonder Man), the Austrialian anti-AIDS campaign from 1987 (an advertisement) and the nickname given to former NHL enforcer Stu Grimson (wow...all that) We all will see him one day...as we will not get out of this alive

Answer 4

Grim Reaper”
A Western depiction of Death as a skeleton carrying a scythe.

The personification of death as a living, sentient entity is a concept that has existed in many societies since the beginning of recorded history. In Western cultures, death is usually given the name "The Grim Reaper" and shown as a skeletal figure carrying a large scythe, and wearing a midnight black gown, robe or cloak with a hood, or sometimes, a white burial shroud. Usually when portrayed in the black-hooded gown, only his eyes can be seen.


grim reaper - fear no evil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhTdKigJhZc&mode=related&search=

Love & Blessings
Milly

Answer 5

The Grim Reaper is the Angel of Death and there is no way of out running this Angel nor change it's mind from taking you from this world into the next. He is the one who will come to you first and just escort you outta here. I do not think this is really a Myth and it does sound scary to me, I guess there isn't any other way to put it though and that it is just the Angel of death. I guess truthfully none of us will know the right answer until we die.

Answer 6

The Grim Reaper has existed since the beginning of recorded history.

http://www.indianasattic.com/grimreaper/
http://www.mythologyweb.com/cronus.html

Answer 7

The grim reaper is the Angel of death.

Answer 8

According to the book "On a Pale Horse" by Piers Anthony.... the Grim Reaper is a position.... a job... and a humans take turns filling the job.

Give it a read

Answer 9

the grim reaper was thought up during the black death in the middle ages

Answer 10

Old term means meeting death.

Just like the end is near

Answer 11

He's the angel of death. Or a farmer who's grain output for the year is exceedingly tiny.