Death is an important part in life, and we all experience it in family and friends and eventually ourselves. Paul uses death as a tool to prepare our selves for our life, and give understanding for the future for our lives. In God's way of death, when we die our souls goes to "heaven" where we wait as He prepares our eternal homes in the true heaven. Also when He returns, He will raise up those who had died and bring them to heaven first the Hos children. While the Christian religion shows happiness after death and a place where we can be with our God, but that's not the same for other religions.
In the many religions in the world, they all have a different meaning of the word death. For the Hindus, when they die they are reincarnated into another animal on the earth and live out another life like that. So when the family mourns, they also try to figure out what animal the member of reincarnated into and keep one in their house as if they are the same person. For atheists is another story, where you die and you are dead. There isn't going to any heaven or returning back to the earth in another form, you are just dead. While referring back to Ancient Rome, Romans thought that they would go to another world after they died, and that life on the earth was a type of test and that they would go to another place as their "real" life begins.
