Reunited with the departed

Last November 2, All Souls Day, I attended the 5:30PM mass at Xavier University. In the homily the priest said, "The sure way to be reunited with our loved ones who went ahead of us is to die." I'm sure he didn't mean to say that we should kill ourselves to be reunited with our departed loved ones, but rather it was an assurance that we'll meet them again someday, after we die. And this is reason enough not to fear death.