From Union College's 1975 yearbook.

"Watch for it!"  From Weird Tales, 1942.

This is exactly how we feel when folks won't write us back: "It will grip you and it won't let you go; it will become unbearable, a torture to listen to -- for it will be … dead silence."  From Weird Tales, 1942.

"We reach the goal when, in the mansions of the blest, Death leaves to its eternal rest the weary soul."  From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars, 1901.

"Can death be conquered?"  From Awake magazine, 1958.

The grim reaper outrunning an airplane (or racing toward the site of an upcoming accident?)  From der Guckkasten, 1911.

The old fable failed to mention that, ultimately, the tortoise and the hare were racing toward the grave.  From Le Charivari, 1887.

From a bullsh*t article (the entire magazine is bullsh*t) about how big science is about to eradicate the grim reaper.  We're still waiting, big science!  From Illustrated World, 1922.

From the Wabash yearbook of 1895.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

Death lurked outside their home.  From Red Ryder and the Secret of Wolf Canyon by S. S. Stevens, 1941.