Is God out to get us? Yes.

What is this thing that men call death? 

A young man yesterday asked the question, "if God loves us, why did He make the world so full of dangerous, sharp, scary things that can kill us?" 

The answer is simple: Because God has it in for you. God eventually wants you to die. 

We are children of our Heavenly Father, on a temporary study abroad here on this foreign planet we call earth. But we are not meant to stay here forever. As Russell M. Nelson said, "Before embarking on any journey, we like to have some assurance of a round-trip ticket."

In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were immortal, and would have lived forever. God knew that this would not do. He wanted us to be able to die so that we could return to His presence. So, He prepared a fallen world full of lightning, trips and falls, diseases, and etc. 

Alma 40 discusses in detail what becomes of the spirit after death. 

"Now, concerning the state of the soul between death and the resurrection—Behold, it has been made known unto me by an angel, that the spirits of all men, as soon as they are departed from this mortal body, yea, the spirits of all men, whether they be good or evil, are taken home to that God who gave them life." (Alma 40:11) 

C.S. Lewis says that for every longing, there is a fulfillment. People have hunger, well, there is such a thing as food. People have a reproductive drive, well, there is such a thing as the procreative act. People have a longing to live, then there must be such a thing as eternal life. Death is scary for us because we cannot see the other side. Death seems like the ultimate tragedy to us, much as a small child carrying an ice cream cone is convinced that the worst thing that could ever happen to him would be to drop the delicious scoop of mint brownie onto the concrete. But the child (and we) are mistakenly short-sighed. In the eternal perspective, death is as significant as the dropping of an ice cream cone, it's just one more experience and step on our path to become beings either divine or demonic.