You can see as both as a way to bring solace to people so death doesn't looks so meaningless and as a way to justify suffering in this life because the next is

You can see as both as a way to bring solace to people so death doesn't looks so meaningless and as a way to justify suffering in this life because the next is so much better. Two sides of the same coin, compassion and tyranny inextricably linked. Unless you're not religious and then there is only either despair or acceptance -and this life is the only one we should cherish and fight for.