Inigo Montoya would like to have a word with you...

It's more like a "say your prayers" than "pay your taxes" kind of thing.

I’d like at least a few seconds so I can relish the lack of responsibility

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"Well, I'll try. Come back in a few decades. Or not at all; I can do it myself."

It depends.

If the threat is "we're about to have a fight you won't survive", your critique is valid. If the threat is "you've just been poisoned, and will succumb within a few days", then giving them the time to put their papers in order really won't harm the speaker at all. Though maybe it isn't entirely effective as a threat. If the threat is "I can take actions that will end your life, but all I'm telling you is it's happening soon" it works as an ominous threat, and a sincere offer (though they'd probably better hurry).

I prefer “don’t renew your library books”

That's why I walk up to random people on the street and angrily shout at them "PREPARE TO DIE!!"

I then calmly hand them a brochure for my estate planning business.

So, it isn't actually supposed to be a threat, really, in the 'intimidating' or 'terror inducing' sense.

It is supposed to be something of a warning... its a courtesy, a formality from someone who is familiar with causing death.

It makes a bit more sense if it comes from a context where a warrior or assassin of some kind... is indeed genuinely urging you to actually perform some kind of final prayer, or absolution ritual, or otherwise mentally prepare yourself for your life to end.

Maybe think of the John Wick movies. One of his targets, he simply has cornered her in her bath, gives her the relative dignity of allowing her to slit her own wrists, talks her through her death... only shoots her once she's already lost consciousness.

Preferred: “I EAT BONES AND SHIT GHOSTS”

Just preface it with "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father,...".

Remember to die is another way to phrase it less as a threat and more as a reminder of what is inevitable.

It's way more normal-sounding than "Scholar of the First Sin"

The stament is because they want the victim to know they are going to die and that they are going to do it. Its a personal murder type of thing.