One does not speak gladly about death, and this is why we feel sometimes even constrained to avoid some words. Death threatens the existence and takes from a person the very thing that he/she holds dear: the life. In life, we are used to find solutions, ways of escaping entanglements, while in dealing with death this is not possible anymore. Man’s reaction is most of the time that of fear. Due to such feelings and due to imagination, each language has developed and is still developing collocations that come to describe this phenomenon, which is death. In the present paper we will follow the collocations developed in the German and Romanian culture. In both languages, the subjective attitude of the speakers has generated, and is still generating, fix phrases, the asymmetries deriving from the different development of some material and cultural activity in the geographic regions of the two nations.