Ah, correction, he was dead. The big moron got himself killed saving a child that wouldn't have even been fatally injured anyway, so since he wasn't supposed to die I was assigned to help him through his trial to come back to life. He didn't want to at first, thought it'd be better for the people that he cares about if he was dead, but...well, he changed his mind.

[And made everyone everywhere sob.]

It seems there are quite a few different versions of death entities in other worlds. I would have liked to meet this "Death" it's too bad she's not here.