JOB FOR EVERYONE

Michael Stuhlbarg as Larry Gopnik in "A Serious Man."

In today's expression from The Life of Meaning, we return to our first interviewee in the book, Thomas Lynch, the poet and undertaker, whose first hand observances of the dead and those left standing in its wake are stuff of the incomprehensible. Not much poetic here but there is the bewilderment of our finality, our snifting out as it were at the "end."
Being in the death business makes everyone a potential customer, but when those are young children, Lynch states he does not know how a parent feels, nor does he wish to. He states being an undertaker is like living in the book of Job.
For whatever reason, life (and its consequence death) seem to be more of an experience than an explanation. We will all experience our final moment of mortal existence. Some sooner, some later, some quickly, some agonizingly slow. It is the parameter that defines our being.
But how do we live our experience as true? 
What is it about Job that is for everyone? 
Questioning, doubting, suffering, existence of God? How does Lynch link these to true faith?
Does suffering have any lasting value?

Walter Morton for Terra Incognita