A Deal With Death

I made a deal with death.
Not with the devil but death himself.
I don’t even know if there’s Heaven or Hell or even God and the Devil but there certainly is death – as a person, a man with a horrible sense of humour might I add.
This is the story of my deal with him.
The deal was that in exchange for my mother living a little longer I was to do the job he hated the most.
Dealing with suicides, the bane of his existence as he put it.
Let me start by telling you how it started…