Physical Care - What is the point?

Originally written as a facebook note on 10/11/10 - I am feeling a little bitter tonight about taking care of a physical body.  What is the point when death is the inevitable end?  I don't say this flippantly, I am being serious.  All the times we took Max to the doctor, for what?  In the end, his body was hurt too badly for any doctor to save.  18 and ended up in a temporary casket on his way to being cremated for the cemetery.  We had just spent $600 on his teeth!  They were clean and no cavities when he died - for what????  I am not trying to be callous.  I just wonder how it will matter whether I painted my toenails 250 times during my life, or if I exercised or if I had my hair cut.  What did it matter for Max that he took good care of himself?  What did it matter that he was saving money for college?  Or that he got good grades in high school?  FOR WHAT??  For a future that was not meant to be?  I took poor Wesley to the doctor tonight because he is so sick.  I guess that is the point - less suffering here in this human body.  I would not withhold one good thing from my children, including keeping up with their teeth, so I cannot begrudge that we took care of Max that way.  Ug, these thoughts swirling around in my head just make no sense.  I completely understand why grieving parents think they are going crazy!