It won't ask you to accept a bunch of religious dogma on blind faith and it won't pretend to be the only book you will ever need to read if you want to be happy. It will speak to you like the thoughtful human being that you are, and, by way of a gallery of icons, present the wisdom of the Bible in a fun and uniquely insightful fashion. Of your seventy allotted years, deduct the twenty-three spent sleeping and eleven and half spent bathing and eating. That leaves thirty-six. That's a curse.
Nothing focuses the mind like the prospect of being shot in the morning.
Death is a blessing because it forces us to distinguish between the lasting and meaningful and the trivial and fleeting. Death wasn't part of the original plan, but after Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of Knowledge, G-d decided man needs the discipline of a final exam. Cain's evasion of responsibility for killing Abel. He implied the guilt was actually G-d's for failing to prevent the murder from taking place. Punishment is only just when it's commensurate with the crime.