I think it largely comes down to what purpose God had for mankind and each of us. Some would have you believe that we are nothing more than Playdough, shaped, toyed with and eventually either discarded or put on a shelf so that God could admire His own work. I reject that. Not because it violates any personal notions of what God ought to be or do, but because it violates both reason and Scripture.
Evil exists, not because God created it and authored all evil deeds, but because it is the natural consequence of free will. There can be no free will to choose good if evil does not exist. There can be no Salvation without voluntary damnation.
Death exists only as an affirmation of the purpose of life in an otherwise meaningless existence. The world could carry on its Godless plan for eternity if there were no death. Archbishop Fulton Sheen said it best:
"Death proves also that life has meaning because it reveals that the virtues and goodness practiced within time do not find their completion except in eternity."
Very good.
“... life has meaning...” Yes. It would seem an oxymoron to posit a religion of meaningless.
To “ it violates both reason and Scripture” I would add “basic human experience.” Calvinism results in a cosmos devoid of meaning where the human experience is an illusion.