Reaper Man: Terry Pratchett

`Inside every living person is a dead person waiting to get out.`

Death has been fired by the Auditors of Reality for the heinous crime of developing . . . a personality. Sent to live like everyone else, Death takes a new name and begins working as a farmhand. He`s got the scythe already, after all.

And for humanity, Death is just . . . gone. Which leads to the kind of chaos you always get when an important public service is withdrawn. If Death doesn`t come for you, then what are you supposed to do in the meantime?

You can`t have the undead wandering about like lost souls - there`s no telling what might happen. Particularly when they discover that life really is only for the living . . .

Reaper Man is the second book in the Death series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.