How are we to bet our arranging a good life in the face of death?
Even after the fall, the wickedness of the human heart seems out of control
People lived 700, 800, 900 year - can you imagine the arranging of lives that could be done during that time?
So God set our years shorter - Genesis 6:3
Death is never natural - it wasn't meant to be
Those left behind experience such pain
Each death can begin to understood only within the larger story God is telling