Death ( Timewyrm : Revelation ) Death was an Eternal and was one of the god s of Gallifrey . As such she represented and embodied Death itself . Biography . Death was not the oldest of the gods ; Pain was . But she was older than Time . ( PROSE : " Set Piece " ) She came into being when Chris Cwej and Ishtar Hutchings had sex . Ishtar gave birth to Jasmine Surprise Cwej - Hutchings , who went on to have sex with Ricky McIlveen ( a powerful psionic ) , who in turn gave birth to Death . ( PROSE : " Happy Endings " ) There were legends that Death was apparently conceived when the " gods " were drunk , ( PROSE : " Return of the Living Dad " ) being created from the dreams and thoughts of Time Lords , becoming personified into an " abstract universal entity . " ( PROSE : " Human Nature " ) During the Old Time on Gallifrey , Death sent a messenger to Slothe . The Messenger killed the inhabitants of Slothe , until one day Presus rose up and fought the creature , killing it . ( PROSE : " Blind Fury " ) Early in life , during the youth of his first incarnation , the Doctor killed Torvic . He made a deal with Death . Rather than having Death make him her champion , Death would choose another Time Lord , later known as the Master . However , the Doctor would later forget about this encounter . ( AUDIO : " Master " ) The Doctor recalled seeing Death on a Gallifreyan hillside ( presumably , before he knew who Death was ) . ( PROSE : " Set Piece " ) The Seventh Doctor met Death for the first time on the Moon , when she was summoned by the Timewyrm as a robed skeleton . ( PROSE : " " ) Death briefly spoke to the Travellers in Puterspace stating that three quarters of them would die , but would not state which of them . ( PROSE : " Love and War " , AUDIO : " Love and War " ) The Doctor made another deal with Death to save Ace ( presumably from the Hoothi ) and offered himself in her place . ( PROSE : " Love and War " ) Death later took the life of Doctor John Smith . ( PROSE : " Human Nature " ) On several occasions , the Doctor had said he was " friends " with Death . ( AUDIO : " The Death Collectors " , " Spider ' s Shadow " ) He once won a bet with Death . ( PROSE : " Sleepy " ) Death picked to be her champion , as a means of revenge upon the Doctor . ( PROSE : " No Future " ) Death , along with Time and Pain , attended Bernice Summerfield and Jason Kane ' s wedding in Cheldon Bonniface on 24 April 2010 . ( PROSE : " Happy Endings " ) When the Doctor suffered a one - sided heart attack at Roz Forrester ' s funeral , he had a vision of Death taunting him about taking the life of one of his companions , and that some day soon , she will take him , when he is alone and friendless , without warning and without meaning . ( PROSE : " So Vile a Sin ) " Death appeared to the Doctor when he returned to the House of Lungbarrow . ( PROSE : " Lungbarrow " ) At some point , the Doctor made a deal with Death , to give the Master a new start in life as a good and honest man for ten years , feeling guilty for how he turned out . However , after the ten years , it was agreed he would have to kill the Master . When the ten years expired , Death sent the Doctor to Perfugium , where " John Smith " was living . Taking on the identity of John Smith ' s maid , Jade , Death tormented the Doctor , John Smith and his friends . This led to one of his friends , Victor Schaeffer , killing his own wife , and John ' s love , Jacqueline . When the Doctor couldn ' t go through with killing John , he realised his significance in creating the Master , and turned him into Death ' s Champion , by making his original deal with Death . He constructed a new deal with Death , so that he wouldn ' t have had to kill John , but to kill an innocent person in the place of an assassin ( who was just a disguise of Death again ) , but couldn ' t go through with that deal either . Death also made a deal with John Smith that to remain as John Smith , he had to decide whether he would make the Doctor Death ' s Champion , or if he would kill Victor so that Jacqueline would reborn , but become the Master again . It is still unknown what his decision was . ( AUDIO : " Master " ) Death stalked the Seventh Doctor for some time . The Doctor ended up making a deal with Death so that he could save the life of the Tramp , unaware that his death should have had repercussions in the Web of Time . ( PROSE : " The Tramp ' s Story " ) At one point , Death took the name " LaMort " and moved to Sydney in the 19th century , interested in the novelty of colonial Australia . Two hundred years later , she had become bored with all the ways and places that death took place . She intended to commit suicide . However , the Doctor , Benny , and Ace visited her , and the Doctor made Benny describe all the planet s that humans had brought death to in her time . With the promise of all these new virgin worlds , Death resolved not to commit suicide , and she dropped her pills ; they transformed into souls and melted away . ( PROSE : " Vigin Lands " ) The Eighth Doctor knew the rituals involved in journeying to speak with Death . Sabbath followed the Doctor on his trip into Death ' s abode . ( PROSE : " Camera Obscura " )