The Book Thief - Death

I am in the book group reading The Book Thief. An excellent book by Markus Zusak. For this blog we had to read 110 pages. They were fairly enjoyable to read. In the beginning you could be confused about who is the narrator. Then you realize it's(never says whether it's a female or male) Death.

Death.
How neat is that. It's kind of creepy but it makes sense. The whole book is written during the holocaust. Endless amounts of people lost their lives during those years. What is that called? Death. It made me want to read ahead because I liked how Death described what was going on. Death didn't seem to like its job, not wanting to look at all the destruction and casualties. It remembers colours, describes the sky and such. It's horrible what he has to do, yet Death somehow makes it beautiful. How eerie is that? Technically, the people are about to die anyway, when Death gets to them. A person could just have been shot and lying on the ground, seconds from dieing. Death comes and takes their soul from their body and that is when they are "officially" dead. Death is taken by the main character of this book. Liesel Meminger, a little German girl who is being forced to leave her mother and go to a foster home. He first sees her when it comes to take away her younger brother(just before they are to arrive at the foster home). She is calling her brothers name, begging him to wake up. Death is upset(yes, Death has feelings) by this, even though it has seen stuff like it many times before. It decides to stay with her till the end of the small funeral. It watches her as she steals her first book. Therefore, from then on, it calls her the book thief. Unfortunatly, this isn't the last time Liesel will see Death(times that aren't her dieing). Death watches her pain and grows quite found of her.
I think it would be neat to meet Death, as Markus Zusak describes it in the book. I'm not saying that I want to do it any time soon but it sound like an interesting person. Assuming that Death is in fact a person. The way Death is written it makes me question if there were such a thing, would it be a normal person. An immortal person but still... Would Death be a skeleton, with a cape and scythe? Or would it be a man in a suit? An old woman wearing a cooking apron and carrying a spatula? A zebra with extremely human-like qualities and can talk?
Or maybe it's a little boy. With large blue eyes and shaggy brown hair. Aimlessly wandering the earth, looking for souls to take to a better place...