When the emo takes over

There’s a lot of representations of Death. I know I’m a little wrapped up in it still from the Book Thief, but between him, Gaiman’s perky gothic Death and Silas, Pratchett’s Death and Death of Rats, and George/Millie and her cohorts in Dead Like Me, I seem to be surrounded by them. It makes me think about how they’re represented in modern fictions. I’m thinking a comparison between the Death of Byron and Tennyson and Poe and so on. Not sure where to take it yet, I’ll get around to fleshing it out though.