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I've never heard Death been said to be based on Tori Amos. Delirium partly is.

The Sandman Companion by Hy Bender has an interview towards the end that may shed some light on this:

HB: [...] Once you determined Death's gender, where did her look come from?

NG: Death is the only major character whose visuals didn't spring from me; that credit goes to Mike Dringenberg. In my original Sandman outline, I suggested Death look like rock star Nico in 1968, with the perfect cheekbones and perfect face she has on the cover of her Chelsea Girl album.

But Mike Dringenberg had his own ideas, so he sent me a drawing based on a woman he knew named Cinnamon — the drawing that was later printed in Sandman 11 — and I looked at it and had the immediate reaction of, "Wow. That's really cool." Latter that day, Dave McKean and I went to dinner in Chelsea at the My Old Dutch Pancake House and the waitress who served us was a kind of vision. She was American, had long black hair, was dressed entirely in black — black jeans, T-shirt, etc. — and wore a big silver ankh on a silver necklace. And she looked exactly like Mike Drindenberg's drawing of Death.

There is more about her character etc, but no further pointers toward real or fictional influences.

I can't remember if I've read or heard the reason anywhere, so here's my question - is there any significance to the black spiral under her right eye? It reminds me of an Eye of Horus, but it's noticeably different. Willbyr (talk | contribs) 15:10, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Picture Caption is Wrong

This might just be me, but isn't the picture of death over a cup of coffee from the miniseries "The Time of Your Life", rather than "The High Cost of Living"?

I can't seem to find that illustration in either book, and it certainly doesn't seem to be in the same style as either of them. The chequered background is a motif used in TTOYL, but the colouring seems to obviously done on a computer, rather than by hand (or made to look hand-coloured). D J L 15:39, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

It is on the cover of some, but not all editions of The Time of Your Life.--Scottandrewhutchins 19:24, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The sunless lands

I seem to remember that Morpheus (and possibly Death herself) referred to Death's realm as "the sunless lands" on more than one occasion...am I right? If so, this would seem to negate the assertion that Death is in her realm at the beginning of The Wake. A mention could possibly be made of Foxglove and Hazel's experiences in The High Cost of Living. Willbyr (talk | contribs) 19:53, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Endless nights

In Endless Nights (2003) Gaiman shows Death several billion years ago, with a markedly different personality-- forbidding and joyless

Can anybody confirm this? I'm kinda inclined to think there's no such thing. TommyStardust 17:22, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

I've got the book; the reference is from the story that revolves around Dream. The story does indeed take place in Earth's distant past, before life began here. Death only has a few lines of dialogue, but her demeanor and attitude are the complete opposite of her portrayal in the original series, and everyone around her who isn't an Endless is markedly uneasy. This story also marks the first appearance of Delirium as Delight (in a speaking role) and the only appearance of the first Despair, as I recall. Willbyr (talk | contribs) 17:29, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Goth thing

Since I last saw this page all references to death being a goth have been cut. I applaude this because A)it's not as informative as actually saying what she's like and B)as goth itself is so hard to define, it seems best not to use that generalisation. However, I think there should be a mention of the word somewhere, though I can't think where. I always believed it was a deliberate visual 'joke' that death herself chooses to portray herself like those (and again I generalise, pray take me on good faith) whose interest in death is so much more mundane. I don't know what anyone else thinks, though. -Zepheriah 23:31, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 06:52, 1 January 2008 (UTC)