God did not make death, God forms us in His image and likeness, God sustains us in being (Wisdom 1-2). “But by the envy of the devil,
death entered the world, and they who belong to his company experience it.”

‘Illness, in both the girl and the woman suffering from a hemorrhage, tends towards death, and death imposes itself in all its terrible reality.
Saint Mark (5:21-43) brings us to experience this in his very vivid accounts of these events.
And they help us to listen to Jesus Christ, who is asking us to have faith.
For without faith we cannot understand these miracles, since not only do they lead us to observe that the cure of the woman with a hemorrhage and the resurrection of Jairus’ daughter have taken place, but we must confront the faith option in order to arrive at our own cure and our own resurrection’
(from the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers, “The Gospel of Health,” 1996).