Death and Greed(Analysis essay from the pardoners tale(Canterberry tales)

In the Pardoners tale, are death and greed the same character? After all if it weren’t for the greed that the three men had for the gold, none of them would have died. Or is greed that causes death? Either way, greed and death are heavily connected in The Pardoners tale.
In the story, the old man tells the three rioters that only death waits under the tree that their friend was found dead under (pg 161, lines 103-105). This is a perfect example of how death and greed are connected because the old man is basically doing Death’s dirty work and sending them to the tree, and the old man could also want all the gold for himself after they have all died.
In lines 111-113 the three men discover that only gold coins lay under the tree, unlike what the old man had told them, this event is what eventually causes these three men’s deaths. If they hadn’t gone there to avenge their friend’s death, they wouldn’t have killed each other. Or was it death that killed them?
Death and Greed, in my opinion, are the most connected characters in the story. If one didn’t exist the entire story would be completely different. If Greed wasn’t in the story the three men would have split the money and death wouldn’t have killed any of them. And if Death wasn’t in the story the three men would have been immortal and lived. I think they are two separate characters but they could not exist in the story without one another.