
Any time she uses her death powers is only to allow rebirth to happen immediately afterwards. However she is not evil and her purpose is to kill off the remnants of a destroyed world, so that Sailor Moon can use her own powers to restore it. She has the power to destroy a planet if she wants. Sailor Saturn is an entity of death and carries a scythe as a weapon. Despite loving to talk about darkness and death all the time, she's actually a very nice girl who's covering up the fact that she's cripplingly shy around strangers.

Death in Gregory Horror Show is the only character shown to be completely friendly to the trapped guests, speaking kindly and offering to help where he can.Momo in Ballad of a Shinigami is a sweet, white-haired girl who not only makes your death painless, she helps the people you are leaving behind by comforting them.When we show fear it jumps at us faster than light, but if we do not show fear, it casts its eye upon us gently, and guides us into infinity." The idea is alluded to in Cowboy Bebop, where Laughing Bull says "Do not fear death.He's a humanoid Angelic Abomination with a Touch of Death ability he can't control. Angel in Chainsaw Man is the Anthropomorphic Personification of this concept.In the end, death is necessary for progression. A world of immortality does sound like a good idea on paper, but when one stops and really think about it, a world of immortality would have no need to grow and advance. The final Big Bad, Yhwach, is written to be the embodiment of the fear of death, and is a perfect demonstration of how far a person is willing to go to escape death.

Death is indeed a scary thing, but it will happen to all of us eventually, so we might as well accept it. This is arguably the overarching theme of the series.In other words, shinigami are portrayed the same way humans are portrayed: as individuals with their own personalities, worries, fears, foibles, strengths and weaknesses.

Their role is to guide the dead to Soul Society, cleanse hollows of post-death sin so they too can be guided to Soul Society and also to maintain the balance of souls across different worlds. However, shinigami aren't enemies of humanity even if their focus on the big picture can make them seem aloof at times.

Thus, the shinigami are just like humans: they can be friendly, moody, supportive, scary, hostile depending on situation or individual personality type. The fact that the main character becomes one while still alive is a plot point before the Big Bad shows his face.
