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human
[Sandman]What would have happened to the world if Roderick Burgess actually managed to capture Death instead of Dream?

So when Dream was captured, life went as usual, save for a few sensitive people who got negatively affected in various ways. We know that Burgess was looking for immortality for himself... So if Death would not give him what he wanted like Dream, and remained his prisoner, what would have happened to the world/universe?
gpt
Much the same, but the difference is "negatively effected" is far bigger here.

There are enough death gods and psychopomps to take up the slack so it won't end with no-one ever dying, but as with Dream, the domain isn't *managed* anymore. So things start going wrong. People die for no reason, or don't die even when their bodies should no longer function, or come back from the grave in varying levels of decay. And the longer it is, the more such horrifying anomalies happen.

As you said, a few people would be negatively effected. But falling through the wheels of death is a far worse thing then falling through the wheels of dream.