It is most likely because of the language roots we stem from. The romance tongues use a feminine article (where there is an article). The non-romance tongues generally assign a masculine quality, or personification, to death. English, as you know, does not have the concept of masculine, feminine, or neuter words, but we personify a couple of nouns, like cars, ships, and death.
Cars, ships, the earth, mother nature, tempests, and other words are all feminine.
Examples:
She's a beautiful car/ship. The storm was fierce; she packed a mighty punch. The earth, with her 10,000 flowers ...
Death is masculine. Other words are, too, but I can't think of any right now.
Last edited by Rusty; June 08, 2008 at 03:28 PM.
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