There is no meaning to life

We finished watching All Quiet on the Western Front on Friday.
Though i knew already that Paul was going to die by the end of hte movie, through different foreshadowings earlier on--i am still shocked that the director would let paul die so easily. For Paul, Kat was the only one worth living for. And when Kat simply died, it seemed as if Paul also thoguht that there was nothing left in life. The next seen showsPaul sitting there quietly, looking lifeless. It was as if he was thinking "what am i doing here? Theres nothing left for me now." By that point, Paul had seen all his friends die off one after another. The thought occured to me that he probably no longer cared whether he lived or died.
There were other parts of the movie that involves this theme of how there is no meaning to life, especially when the soldiers easily died off one by one. The other soldiers referred to the dead ones as, "It" and "only a corpse", as if humans are things that live and die, and once they die, thats it. When paul was simply shot after reaching out to the butterfly (something small yet beautiful that is left in Paul's world), my first reaction was, "what? thats IT?" the movie makes death seem like soemthing unavoidable, like soemthing that is is very ordinary.
I find it hard to wrap my mind around this viewpoint, and i do wonder if there is anyone who actually believes that there is no meaning to life. For me, i can think of a thousand reasons for living.
But all in all, i'm glad that i've watched this movie which has introduced me to different viewpoints on life as well as many interesting aspects of film.