Ranked 25th best sitcom episode ever by Robert David Sullivan and greatest sitcom episode of all in an early 90s Nick at Nite countdown.
Several personifications for Death come up: Old Man Death, Father Death, Mother Death, Uncle Death, Death, Johnny Cash (twice), and in the end credits, Dave Death.
The title parodies the novel and 1939 film noir, "Dust Be My Destiny."
When the elevator doors' open, and Dave Death says to Bob, "room for one more", it's the same line, repeated several times, by the dark-haired stewardess to the episode's protagonist, in Twenty Two (1961).
Features the ultimate "Hi,Bob!"--- said by Newhart himself.