Deep meaning is unavailable to a life that has not included significant suffering.

Drawn from Frankl's logotherapy and supported by the Theologian's reading of multiple religious traditions (Christianity, Buddhism, Stoicism) that frame suffering as transformative. The Phenomenologist contributed a structural analysis of 'depth' as a quality of meaning that requires contrast with its absence. The Adversary damaged the position on empirical grounds: the Naturalist found no evidence that people who report the highest meaning scores have suffered more than average. The causal arrow may point the other way — meaning may help people survive suffering, not the reverse.