User blog comment:SeraphLucifer/Discussion/@comment-79.115.71.25-20151206202447/@comment-3481504-20151207145958

I only said that because a few people have raised the case that death could've just been a primordial being like God who took on the role of death. However, the show as yet doesn't seem to support this. Also, no, the Horsemen don't need their rings to take human form, as Brady said they were still in their human forms without their rings, by saying, "they're withered husks - fetal position on the floor."