Death is just there to stop over-population.
It is important, without it we would all suffer more than we actually are.
The suffocation of overcrowding can be far worse than death, it may feel difficult to beleive, but then again noone beleives anything that anyone says anymore.
Must be a good thing then.
Anyway....life ends with death, death creates life, and life can bring pain or happiness.
I do not beleive in an afterlife, but meerly re-incarnation and non-existance.
There is nothing that can change my beleifs, and I do not wish to change anyone elses, I am just making a point.
Although people can be strict with the bible and religious beleifs, to me (and only to me) the bible is simply nothing more than a good bunch of well written, yet strange, story collection.
But thats just my opinion.