If death is to give meaning to” being ” then consciousness must first give  beings the awareness  of death and the ability to make at least some pitiful guesses of what death  might be . If consciousness is to give any reason or joy to being or if consciousness is to have any mercy at all , then it must give beings  hope and a way for now to fool them self about death. Therefore ,beings who are aware of death, terrorized by it and can not escape it, must be allowed  to create all the illusions they can to make” being ” bearable .Living gives us at least some time to build acceptable ,workable truths about what is ” To Be “. Death has either no time “To Be or endless times “To Be” again and again forever. Or god knows what else . Friend ,foe, man , woman , black or white face this and are heroes beyond any of the gods. Love is equal to them all, not hate.