Why is death called "the great equalizer"?

Question

Why is death called "the great equalizer"?

Answer 1

Jim the Fee, here

Now THAT is a class A, No. 1 question and it deserves a

class A, No. 1 answer.

I can't give you a direct quote as to who is attributed as being the first to say "death is the great equalizer"  I have not taken time to search it out on Wikipedia.  But it has been used for at least 75 years, since I first heard it when I was

5.  I heard it next from my Uncle Walter, when I was 11 and was living, for the summer, over on the Fee's general farm on

the border of East Washington and West Idaho.

He was something of a character and he attributed it to

Samuel Langhorn Clemmens (aka Mark Twain) who was a favorite "homespun philosopher" of my Uncle Walter.  But I am quite sure that it goes way back to England in the great ages of Royalty in Great Britian.  And it was applied to

many of the great Royals at the time.  Because it was a reminder to all men and women of the royal blood lines

that in "Death" all royals and serfs were "equal" in the eyes

of the maker.  And so it stands to this day in our society that

whether you are rich and highly placed in business, professions, politics, or entertainment -- or you are the lowest of the lowly out-of-work, out of a home, living on the streets -- or are among the great masses of the middle ground, like most of us --- When we are taken by 'death'

we are all equal in the eyes of the maker!!!

Cheers,

Jim the Fee

Answer 2

Death does not discriminate - - it comes for everyone.  It is the one way in which we all are equal.

Answer 3

Because regardless of your income, nationality, s*x, age or any other factor, every human being still has that one thing in common: we all die.

No matter where you may have come from or what you may have done: you're going to die. And that makes everyone, in the end, equal.

Answer 4

Having seen rows of unmarked graves of soldiers in Flanders Fields and also such edifices to the deceased as the Great Pyramids and the Taj Mahal, I haven't a clue why anyone would think that.

Answer 5

dosent matter if you a rich or poor black or white pretty or ugly when your dead your dead