Fridge / Soul Music

• Death stresses the importance of his duty as an ending to Susan. He's aware, after what happened from his retirement in Reaper Man, that things can't live on beyond the end of their time; too much life would give rise to all sorts of lifeforms and create chaos and anarchy; his job as the Reaper is to maintain order, no matter how unfair or bitter that job is to mortals.
  • He also states more than once that to tinker with the fate of one individual is to affect the fate of the world. He can take the long view; ordinary mortals can't.
• Objects in Death's house are inaccurately reconstructed (rock-hard hanging towels, drawers and blotters fused into desks, pipes not hollow until Albert had them replaced) because when Death is carrying out the Duty and sees such things, he's usually incorporeal and can't actually touch or handle them. Hence, he has no way of knowing their proper texture/weight or whether they should be movable.
• At the end, Imp turns out to have reappeared cooking fish and chips at a hot food shop. This is the same sort of work that Death himself was doing when he felt happiness for the first time in Mort. He didn't just spare Imp's life, he found him one that would allow Susan to meet him and that he thought would make Imp happy! Awwww....
• In the animated adaptation, the song "Good Lovin'" contains the lines: "I know the road and I'm in command/ We're gonna hit the heights." This seems to foreshadow the climax, where the Band's cart goes over the edge of the same high mountain road where Mort and Ysabell fell to their death.
• A truly impressive number of Stealth Puns are never spelled out in the book, leaving readers to realize them later on their own, probably while listening to some classic rock album or other. For one example, Death wears a coat he borrowed from the Dean on the day the Music dies.