The critique has to do with Robert DeVries's statements of theodicy and his theology of death as they appear in his portions of the work. In contrast to his consistently helpful foci on issues such as both trusting in and challenging and wrestling with God in the middle of grief, I find his attempts at theodicy and his theological statements about death to be inconsistent at least, and confusing at most. Death is not the way it's supposed to be. Death is unnatural. It is not really God's fault, nor yours, nor that of your spouse.
Death is the devil's calling card.
This is on God's schedule. God sets his own schedule for life and death. God doesn't want people to die any more than we do. Death was not part of God's original design for this world, and death will also not be part of the new heaven and the new earth he will create when Christ returns. We live in a culture that so worships life that we have almost denied the natural cycle of life and death.