Death Can't Be Cheated

And the tale goes like this…

A kind man was able to make friends with death (I forgot how). This man married and had a kid. He made death the godfather of his kid. And death gifted the kid the ability to see him. Death told the kid that whenever he stands by the foot of someone’s bed it means that the person is about to die, something must never be disrupted in anyway lest the cycle of life breaks. This was a fascinating skill, however the kid grew up to be a doctor. He sees whether each patient he takes on will live or die. One patient who was badly ill made him do something he was forbidden to do. A dying man was loved so much by a wife and pleaded to him to do what he can to keep the man alive. Naturally kindhearted, the young man heeded. When Death appeared at the foot of the dying man’s bed, he turned the bed around with the patient’s head right where the feet used to be. Thus, Death could not touch the man. This angered Death, and he warned the grandson that the act will lead to something bad. The grandson did not heed. Soon the grandson met a woman and got married. This wife got struck by an illness that cannot be cured. Knowing that she is about to die, the grandson waited for the time death will appear on the foot of the wife’s bed. When he finally did, the grandson did what he does to save lives. The wife survived but the grandson fell dead on the floor. The wife devastated by her husband’s death cried to Death for the reason. Turns out that every time the doctor turns a bed of a dying person around, the candle of his life melts away in exchange for the life that should have been taken. And on the night that the wife was supposed to die, the remaining small portion of the grandson’s candle was exchanged for hers.

Thus, Death cannot be cheated entirely. In the Harry Potter movie, Death cunningly looked for a way to finish the job. The same way Death looked for a way in the fairytale.