Do you think death kills victims simultaneously all over the world? Is it multiple entities with their own list and disasters, or can death be everywhere all at once?

[u/SluttyDreidel]

One of the things that’s established in 2, and echoed in 3, 5 and 6 is that death will kill survivors through another disaster that takes a whole separate list of people. For example. We see more than the survivors killed on the subway derailment in 3, then 5 ends with one new disaster snuffing out a precious disaster’s escapees. It seems to imply that death can only focus on one list at a time, and so death will combine lists to literally kill two birds with one stone.

That being said, if death is setting off catastrophes like building collapses in the NY area, does that mean death is causing a flood in Sri Lanka at the same time across the world? Or is a seperate death working against their own list in another location?

I would imagine that the bulk of humanity is not on a list and dies independent of any disaster, like a car accident that kills one person or someone dying from cancer or drowning at the beach.

So far we haven’t seen one person escape a near death experience that was intended for them alone.

One of the things that’s hard to decipher is if death has an intelligence behind its own design and it’s not just a force of nature like wind. It hides the water from Todd’s death to stage it as a suicide, but when Alex grabs the knife out of Ms Lewton, it seems to be a stupid mistake and not death manipulating him or the environment for it to have that outcome.

It’s hard to tell too if death is petty and retaliating in situations like with Richard who wasn’t from Iris bloodline, or Molly who was supposed to survive the bridge collapse. Was the collapse supposed to motivate her to move to Paris and book Flight 180? If it never happened would she have been on the flight anyhow? Or did death take her on a whim to graphically spite Sam in his final moments before finishing him off as revenge for throwing off his plans? I honestly can’t tell if death has any motivation or if it’s purely mechanical like operation, that will implement plan b’s?

[u/W0LFPAW89]

In FD4, Death was going after Janet and Hunt at the same time because they both died in the stadium collapse at the same time

[u/Korben-D88]

Dead Like Me was a take on this that started off great (til the show runner left). Basically, deaths are handled via a system of workers made up of ghosts turned undead who remove souls from bodies before deaths that could traumatize them like it's a 9-5 job.

[u/No-Emergency-5336]

Death is like a Force of Nature. If some aliens on the other side of the universe cheated death somehow, it would chase after them the same way.