The purpose of personification in the above excerpt is to give human characteristic to death which is considered to be a non human. Writers usually use personification in their write ups in order to bring an inanimate objects to life so that their actions and natures will be better understood.
So uh- I looked this up and um maybe u could.. try suck the spiders up in a vacuum cleaner if possible, and empty the vacuum cleaner? and then empty it outside maybe.. lol- sorry if this isn't helpful i tried T-T i'm scared of spiders- so yeah