Death falsifies everything and corrupts all things with his breath. Even love is not spared.
At the Feet of The Mother
Canto II: The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal
Death tries to take away every support of hope from the human consciousness and his speech is directed towards this end.
In this realm of the Ideal world built by human thought as inspired by the light of the gods, Savitri must argue her case before Death.