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Author: Chabal2

Mar 24th 2018 at 11:14:30 PM

* {{Discworld}}:
** Attempted by many a character, with only temporary success at best. One was a distracted dwarf bread museum curator who said he didn't have time to die, as there was an entire collection of battle-breads left to catalog (he fades away shortly after), while Ipslore the Red puts his soul into his staff and passes the staff onto his son, a [[PhysicalGod sourcerer]] [[spoiler:who eventually has enough of his father's abuse and breaks the staff]], and Granny Weatherwax once played cards against Death for the lives of a baby and a cow. Death himself is rather bemused by all these attempts, since he sort of remembers everything happening at once, he knows they all die ''anyway'', since he himself lasts to the end of the universe and beyond. [[spoiler:It also turns out he couldn't do it if he wanted, such as when his adopted daughter and son-in-law die in a carriage crash: he cannot create life, only grant an extension by taking them to his realm where they don't age (his daughter was sixteen for more than thirty years).]]
** When substituting for the Hogfather, he does manage to bend the rules a bit: [[spoiler:when he's called to do his duty as death and take away the soul of TheLittleMatchGirl, he takes offense at someone dying so everyone else can feel luckier by comparison, so he gives her the gift of a future. And Albert throws snowballs at the angels who came to take her away.]]