The farther away an object is, the angles between the light rays entering our eyes are smaller, and our lens doesn't need to bend them as much, so tiny muscles relax and flatten it.
For these reasons, a large number of lives can be saved by simply ensuring people get sick at a slower rate, and this is called flattening the epidemic curve.
And the drawing near of Death, which alike levels all, alike impresses all with a last revelation, which only an author from the dead could adequately tell.