At midnight, the Grim Reapers gathered at the crossroads to argue over a life.

When the village elder told stories by the fire, children whispered that the Grim Reaper wandered the hills at night.

Philosophers often cite the Grim Reaper paradox to illustrate how countably many agents, each scheduled to kill the subject at a specific time and each taking a finite interval to do so, can produce a startling contradiction about future events.