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Is It Better to Be Dead?

Again I saw all the people who were treated badly here on earth.

I saw their tears.
    I saw that they had no one to comfort them.
Cruel people had all the power.
    There was no one to comfort the people they hurt.
I decided that the dead
    are better off than the living.

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