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The grim reaper is, as Terry Pratchett would say, 'an anthropomorphic personification of an idea'.
It's simply a way for people without the capacity to understand to impose a meaningful shape on a very abstract construct. It is, of course, irrational, but entirely understandable that people might want to ascribe a higher purpose or a morality to make death (which is, of course, without conscience or moral code) less terrifying.
i don't know what the hell waldo mcfroog is waffling on about, but my parents have a grandfather clock with the personification of old father time on it, which shows a man in a big hooded cloak wielding a scyth. the point, i believe, is that he is reaping time, i.e. the beginning of life is the metaphorical (and indeed literal) sowing of seeds, and there comes a point when the crop has reached its maturity and is therefore reaped.
In Greek mythology, the father of Zeus was a god named Cronos (which actually means time in Greek). He is often pictured as carrying a sickle. Very often as new religions develop, they absorb myths from previous religions into their own. Old Father Time and the Grim Reaper developed in this way from Cronos
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