Death "Vs" Life

So who wins? Is it life or death? 

Christianity would argue life - God triumphantly squashed death in his resurrection of Christ. It's a repeat of the life Vs death motif. 

Morbid atheists might say that death "wins" - it has the final say on our short lives in the chronological sense.

But is it one verses the other? First let's question the notion of death winning at all regardless of our faith position. You could score it very differently. If we accept that death is a natural course of events and that it might be a terrible sense of less that accompanies those that are still alive when a loved one passes, we can still look at that life and say that life won. If I die at 80, then every single day I didn't die, life "won". That's 365 x 80 to 1. Choose the time increment you wish. Life wins.

The morbid atheist might retort that why should you stop the clock there, the person remains dead for trillions of years beyond that, so death "wins". But death is not winning once a person has died, it signals the end of the "competition" for that individual from a phenomenological perspective.

Where death would truly win would be to step outside of a quantitative assessment and to look at how life is lived qualitatively. Christians talk of a future perfect Kingdom of life and love invading, infiltrating the present. Eschatology also has an extraordinary sort of suction power at its essence ushering in the future into the here and now. Conversely, living an empty dead life now also ushers in the death to come.

So it seems that life may win quantitatively and qualitatively - should we embrace it.