Spouses may get a divorce, children may abandon parents and friends may bypass friends. An unemployed member of the family may not be mentioned when other members of the family who are well placed talk about their family. An invalid person may not have a place in the living room when the family throws a party to friends and neighbors. Psalm 30 is about the pain and pathos of rejection similar to what all of us are vulnerable to in this modern society. The psalmist goes through the severe pain of social isolation and rejection which he describes using very strong words.
Death is indeed a strong word to use here.
The heroes of the recent past, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy, all are behind the thick veils of oblivion. We think of even the famous and the popular not so quite often. Nobody takes note of him. Another powerful imagery is also used for this social rejection, that of broken pottery. In the modern consumer world, pottery is alien, not something that can be found easily around.