The Final Friend
The Final Friend is a personification of death in classical Issid culture, a being who brings comfort and relief to injured soldiers or the sick and elderly.
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The idea predates the Therist religion, and despite attempts to crush all rival beliefs the Final Friend is still spoken about as a metaphor for death in modern Ororr.
In the Vetthi Republic there are wayshrines to the Final Friend where people say prayers and leave offerings, praying for the passed souls of love ones, for the gentle passing of those mortally ill, or for a good death themselves.