For the child you lost, the parent you grieve, the friend taken in so untimely a death, are gone forever - never to be seen, never to live again. For the downward trend is inevitable. The great wheel of universal life is slowly grinding to a halt. The spring on the cosmic clock is slowly unwinding. Pollution is increasing.
Human problems intensify.
We seem destined to face the end with not a bang, as the poet said, but a pathetic whimper. Celebrate the holy power unveiled. Celebrate that life isn't one horribly large tragedy, or exercise in pessimism. Jesus has wrestled death and sin and Satan to the ground. He has won forgiveness for all the guilt and wrongs that we have done.