Mostly meant for Dr. Josef Mengele, this can apply to satire or Characters in fiction that one way or another end up killing people on a large scale after being used as pawns.

A person obsessed with the history, culture and traditions of death. Usually also enjoys obituary reading, cemetery walks, murder stories , true and unusual manner of death tales etc.

Lord Death's son from the anime Soul Eater. He weilds twin pistols as weapons and is obsessed with symmetry, believing everything in the world should have a perfect balance between left and right, despite three white stripes called Sanzu Lines on the left side of his head, which he despises and cannot dye, due to the fact they are magic. He is unable to weild only one of his pistols, with the mindset of needing perfect symmetry, this is displayed in one of the episodes where Kid refuses to weild the younger sister, Patty, because it would disrupt his balance.

When one is using Macintosh OS X, and the computer crashes by turning the cursor into a pinwheel and not letting you do anything. SImilar to the Blue Screen of death from the old Windows NT days, but, like many Apple products, cuter and more friendly looking.

A metaphorical expression describing any circumstance that just keeps growing in size or scope until it kills you.

When two people die at the same time they aren't placed in heaven or hell, instead they are sent to Quindecim a bar where they are forced to play various games "with their lives on the line" being judged by an arbiter with human emotions; Decim. Depending on their actions during the game they are sent to be reincarnated or into the void where they are lost forever. This is an anime that really explores life after death with 12 episodes.

It occurs in traffic and often leads to a bad accident. One car is stopped. Another car coming in the opposite direction wants to turn left in front of the stopped car. The driver of the stopped car waves as if to say "it's OK to make the left turn in front of me". However, in the empty lane to the right of the stopped car, here comes another car whose driver has no idea that the left-turning car got the OK wave. The left-turning car and the car in the empty lane hit together usually pretty hard. Thus, the wave of death.