Rincewind has somewhat more sense than Charlie Brown - he knows not to even TRY to kick the football.

He is one of life's losers in that he can never get ahead of the game - EXCEPT - his future is so unsure, even DEATH gets confused by it - HE cannot get a reliable reading from Rincewind's lifetimer.

I'm not sure if PTerry would ever dare kill off Rincewind - unless it was in a story to be published posthumously - he's been in from the start - rumours have abounded about major characters being killed off - but even Cohen and his Silver Horde were left with a bit of an out, and I'm not sure if Wuffles counts as sufficiently major, since he died somewhere between books (Mr Fusspot might be a replacement).