Speaking of life, I'm going to deviate and ask a counter question: what happens after death? I genuinely don't believe you go to any sort of heaven, but I'm starting to think with humans born every day you have to be sent straight into another body to live a different life which poses a lot more questions for me.
There is no real meaning to life, which is a hard pill to swallow. We were made by accident, a miracle of science. It is up to us to decide what to do with this gift.
I think we conscious beings provide purpose for the Universe. Without us it would all be just a massive wasted space. Now there are sentient beings that can observe it's beauty