The death domain is about the transition from living to dead. It is an ubiquitous choice for evil clerics following gods of murder, but death itself is not evil. Good clerics of death may work to ease the passing of the terminally ill, ensure the safe departure of spirits to the afterlife, comfort the families of the deceased, or—when appropriate—delay the moment of death to some later time. And sometimes, for good or for evil, a creature just needs to die.

You learn additional spells when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown in the table below. The spells count as cleric spell for you, are always prepared, and don't count against the number of spells you can prepare each day.

You gain the following Channel Divinity option.

You have a magical special sense when creatures are near death. The sense has a range of 30 feet. Within that range, you know the location of each bloodied creature, each dying creature, and each corpse that could still be resurrected by revivify; in particular, you sense the moment of a creature's death. When you sense a dying creature in this way, you also know how many death saving throws it has passed or failed.

This sense can't detect Minuscule targets, Constructs or Undead, or targets protected from divination magic.

You learn the spare the dying cantrip, or one other cleric cantrip of your choice if you already knew it. When you cast spare the dying, you can target one creature you can see within 30 feet instead of its usual range. Additionally, you can cast extinguish life at 1st level without expending a spell slot. Your Sense of Doom counts as sight for the purposes of both spells.

When you sense a creature die with your Sense of Doom, you can assign a task to its departing spirit as a reaction. Choose one other creature you can see within 10 feet of where the creature died. You compel the spirit to either heal or harm the creature. If the spirit heals, the target regains a number of hit points equal to a roll of the spirit's former size die. If the spirit harms, the target takes necrotic damage equal to the same.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom score (minimum once), regaining expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Your Captain of Souls feature is empowered in the following ways:

When you or a creature you can sense with your Sense of Doom would die, you can delay the death for a brief time. No action is required to delay your own death, but you must use a reaction to delay the death of another creature. Instead of dying, the target gains 1 hit point and a number of temporary hit points equal to its hit point maximum. These temporary hit points last for 1 minute. The target is immune to exhaustion and instant death while these temporary hit points remain.

When the temporary hit points are gone, the target dies. If the target is also reduced to 0 hit points, its body is so mangled that it can't be resurrected by any means short of resurrection.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

You gain the following Channel Divinity option.