Need 2 metaphors for death (needs to be incorporated in a short story) try to limit the word count

"Death is the setting sun; it seeps through the windows..." & "The Reaper is a friend; it'll always be there for you in the end."

(going back on my salmon pal) I try to swim up the current of life, it is pushing me back. eventually, I must succumb to its grave intent for me.

Ascenario where we impact the environment is when humans/ us litter outside or in the ocean which causes wild life to die or even extinct and also if we keep cutting down our trees we might not even have oxygen to live humans also keep limiting water resources wasting it s