Neighborly Disputes

Death and heaven are not good neighbors. They live too close together, there are disputes, mostly territorial, heated confrontations arise. If they lived further apart, if they had mediators to intervene, restrain, adjudicate... alas both, could be somewhat intractable. As for the day-to-day affairs of the earthbound both death and heaven had largely lost interest leaving all administrative duties, to the angels and demons (who knowing each other well) got along most amicably, working closely together for the good, the bad and the just plain ornery.