Why does Death have a scythe...?

Question

is there any reason for it?

Answer 1

hmm balance?

Answer 2

The passage of time and death.

Frequently shown carrying a scythe, since death is the cutting of this life, or with an hourglass, the symbol of the passing of time

Answer 3

Death have a whut?  Cyst?  Or cycle?  Or psyche?

Answer 4

That's why they call him the Grim REAPER. That's what the scythe is for.  

Answer 5

for reaping a soul. Makes you wonder just what this soul is made of  

Answer 6

It is symbolic. People used to use a scythe to reap and harvest wheat. The Grimm Reaper uses it to reap and harvest souls of the damned.  

Answer 7

Just for the fun of it.

Answer 8

The Grim reaper cuts off life with the passing of his farming tool, sudden and final. Would you prefer a push broom or a mop?

Answer 9

It's a symbol that he is reaping the crop.

Answer 10

maybe the scythe's a symbol

Answer 11

It's a warning, don't fear the Reaper.

Answer 12

Because an umbrella isn't very scary

Answer 13

The Grime Reaper harvesting humans souls collecting for Satan.

Answer 14

Yes so he can be scary and kill people.

Answer 15

To scythe your life away like scythering the crops, easily, decisively, totally.

Answer 16

because, not that im complaining, but if the grim reaper was saw holing a d***o, it wouldn't really be scary.

Answer 17

Probably from the Dark Ages. That's when people started painting Death.

Answer 18

At the moment of death, 'Death' cuts the silver cord that keeps your astral body attached to your physical body. The astral body is something like the soul.

Answer 19

he thought the human expression was 'for whom the bell tills'

wow, farming joke.  thanks, im here all night!

Answer 20

I really had to do research on this one and it seems to have pagan origin.  The only references to scythe, or sickles in the

bible that I saw were in reference to Jesus.-

"That the glorified and enthroned Jesus Christ directs this reaping and separating work is shown by John’s vision in Revelation, where Christ is pictured as someone “like a son of man, with a golden crown on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand.”

In response to the angelic cry, “Put your sickle in and reap, because the hour has come to reap, for the harvest of the earth is thoroughly ripe,” John beheld that he “thrust in his sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped.” The apostle observed that thereafter “the vine of the earth” was gathered and hurled into “the great winepress of the anger of God.”—Re 14:14-20; compare Re 19:11-16.

“And I saw, and, look! a white cloud, and upon the cloud someone seated like a son of man, with a golden crown on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. And another angel [the fourth] emerged from the temple sanctuary, crying with a loud voice to the one seated on the cloud: ‘Put your sickle in and reap, because the hour has come to reap, for the harvest of the earth is thoroughly ripe.’ And the one seated on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped.”—Revelation 14:14-16.

Answer 21

Because it cuts you down.

Answer 22

Because in the fable he's called "The Grim Reaper."