Death is an affirmation of the purpose of life in an otherwise meaningless existence.  The world could carry on its God-less plan if there were no death. What death is to an individual that catastrophe is to civilization – the end of its wickedness. This is a source of anguish to the modern mind, for not only must human beings die, but the world must die. Death is a negative testimony to God’s power in a meaningless world for by it God brings meaningless existence to naught. Because God exists, evil cannot carry on its wickedness indefinitely. If there were no catastrophe, such as the Apocalypse reveals, at the end of the world the universe would then be the triumph of chaos. Death proves also that life has meaning because it reveals that the virtues and goodness practiced within time do not find their completion except in eternity. Archbishop Fulton Sheen (The Power of Love)