A matter of perspective

"Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet."
- George Eliot

Contrast that with this:

"I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed...When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: 'Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?' The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us victory in through our Lord Jesus Christ" (my emphasis).
- 1 Corinthians 15:50-52, 54-57