THE PERSONIFICATION OF DEATH.

Death as a personified force it has been imagined in many different ways. The most popular depiction of it as a skeletal figure carrying a large scythe and clothed in a black cloak arose in 14th century England.
In some mythologies, Death comes to collect the soul of the deceased to the afterlife, without having control over when or how the victim dies.
Mot was the personification of Death to the Canaanites. He was considered a son of the king of the gods. El, was the supreme god, the Father of mankind and all creatures. El also fathered many gods, most importantly Hadad, Yam, and Mot, each sharing similar attributes to the Greco-Roman gods: Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades respectively. As recorded on the clay tablets of Ugarit, El is the husband of the feminine force Ash-Erah.
The Phoenicians also worshipped Death under the name 'Mot' and a version of Mot later became Maweth, the devil or angel of Death in Judaism.
Alexander the Great is reputed to have found an entrance to Eden in an area of Africa near the equator, governed only by women, but was unable to enter.
According to the Hebrew Scriptures, Death came into the world as a consequence of Adam's sin. The first human couple were expelled from the idyllic Garden of Eden, after they ate the forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge, and to prevent them eating from the Tree of Life and gainning immortality. The path back is guarded by a Cherub with a flaming sword (Gen.3).
The prophet Ezekiel described the idyllic Garden of Eden as full of precious stones and stones of fire (Ez.28), situated at the very centre of the world, and being of enormous dimension, and everything on this earth had its form engraved in it. It was divided into a lower earthly garden and an upper, heavenly one. Adam and Eve lived in the lower garden which contained beautiful fruit trees. The upper one was full of spiritual delights, where the soul of the righteous went after Death to hear God expound the Truth. The Garden was only a small part of Eden, the main part of it no human eye has ever seen.
When souls depart this life, each individual determine by his/her actions the place they will have in eternity. Those who are especially holy, being free from the power  of the Angel of Death, die from the effect of the serpent's poison which contaminated Eve and her progeny.
Death itself is viewed as part of the Creation, as God was referring  to Death when he declared that the World was very good, since it was the byproduct formed after the war of the elements that occur in the spiritual world, and a way to filter the souls of the good ones passing into the Garden of Eden  through the Cave of Mach-Pelah where they were greeted by the Patriarchs, and being called alive even after death, because they were death to the pleasures of this world but alive to eternity, while the wicked are dead even while still living in the material world.
The Angel of Death is one of the angels whose specific task is to end human life. The Angel of death is covered with eyes, so that those who see him gape in amazement, and a drop of poison from his sword falls into their open mouthes.
When someone dies, therefore, all water in the house should be poured away in case poison from the angel's sword fell into it. This symbolizes that all negative energies that were among the people surrounding him has to be cleansed leaving the individual's soul purified from it, finding peace in his/her heart.
The odor of Paradise wafts from the Garden of Eden, and helps neutralize the pungent breath issuing from the mouth of the Leviathan.
During the 2nd coming of the Messiah, the way to Eden will be revealed, and people will discover wonderful plants and trees. The Messiah himself will be the only one able to read the Truth from the Book of Life, which is written in a fire of many colors.