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Death quotes

You can use Template:Death if you want to write Death quotes to get his special style of speech. You write normally with upper and lower case.

{{death|I don't know about you,}} he said, {{death|but I could murder a curry.}}

I don't know about you,

he said, but I could murder a curry.

Appearances

Aren't there other books where Death doesn't appear? The Truth? Night Watch? --Sanity 11:11, 29 January 2007 (CET)

He appears in The Truth when Pin and Tulip die.

Fhh98 01:15, 1 February 2007 (CET) (edit to add sig)

He's in A Hat Full of Sky not sure about Wintersmith though--Teletran 16:40, 31 January 2007 (CET)

Yeah, he's in both of them. I've edited it to say so.

In the Discworld Companion

According to the Discworld Companion (Gollancz first edition 1994), NINE people have visited the house of Death whilst still being alive. (p198)

Try as I might I can only make this EIGHT mortal visitors who have returned alive to the mortal world afterwards.

These are

• Rincewind
• Twoflower
• Ysabell
• Mort
• Albert
• Igneous Cutwell the wizard
• Princess Keli
• Susan Sto Helit

Unless Quoth the raven counts as a mortal person... in which case, Binky makes it ten...

So who is the ninth? The companion doesn't list them.

Thanks for the help... this is driving me nuts. I have considered the possibility the Companion might be wrong...AgProv 01:07, 1 June 2007 (CEST)

Also consider that they may be trying to drive you nuts – devious buggers, both of them. The comment doesn't seem to have carried over to the New Companion. --Old Dickens 19:42, 1 June 2007 (CEST)

Just worked it out.... the ninth is, most probably, otherwise un-named plumber who was engaged by Albert and who installed the bath, sink and toilet. No doubt learning that in this place, there is no such time as "by next week, squire".

"He is believed to be one of only nine people to have visited the country of DEATH while still mortal"... The New Discworld Companion, paperback edition, p340... the quote is still there.

Only, if he called in a plumber to do the bathroom...who built the rest of the place? (See annotation to Creosote re: estimate for Xanadu.) --Old Dickens 22:23, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Again, the quote is on p.201 in mine, of 280 total. (Gollancz 2003, 9" tall.) --Old Dickens 22:40, 13 August 2008 (UTC)