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My name is Robert Lamb.

And I'm Joe McCormick. And today on Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb. And I'm Joe McCormick. And today on

Stuff to Blow Your Mind, we're going to be beginning a series of episodes about the person

when death when death becomes not a process, but a person or, I guess, more generally, an entity.

So, Rob, you picked out this topic. How did you end up thinking about this?

Well, I guess the main answer is how could I not, right? Because general contemplations of mortality

aside, which will definitely unwrap as we proceed here, all that aside, anthropomorphic

personifications of death are just everywhere in our media and culture to the point that it almost becomes invisible

until you really start looking for it. Like I was just reflecting over the movies that my family and I

watched together during the month of December. And there are like three different films that had a

personification of the Grim Reaper in it,

you know, to varying degrees. So two of them were, of course, from a Christmas Carol,

from Mickey's Christmas Carol, which we watched, and then also the 1970 Scrooge musical,

which is also excellent. Both of those have a manifestation of the Ghost of Christmas yet to

come, which is a death entity. Of course,

in the original story and in pretty much any adaptation you encounter, often depicted as like a

grim reaper, a skeletal figure in a black robe. The bony hand pointing to Scrooge's grave.

Yeah. What name is on that grave? Yeah. And then another one we watched was the 2006 TV

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