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The thought experiment says death becomes beautiful only in a world already freed from fear and harm.

The poem depends on a strict condition: if everything on Earth were actually good, then death could be accepted instead of dreaded. That makes death itself less the problem than the anxiety and damage of living. The calm tone gives the idea a severe clarity, almost like a philosophical note stripped down to essentials.

Conditional epigram: if the world's daily facts were good, death would be expected and beautiful.

The poem works by refusing consolation: death is only frightening because the life leading to it was faulty. The parenthetical 'in terms of the actual things that go on' keeps the sentiment honest — the speaker won't sentimentalize ordinary life to reach the nice line about death. Written the way it is, it reads more like moral accounting than metaphysics.