I feel that you are very close to understanding the ultimate secrets of life. I hope I will not offend if I elaborate on a few more topics (n.b. there are also many other people reading our dialogue, so there is value in it itself):

- courage. When a cat walks on a thin branch, it does not require courage. It knows how to do it, and uses its skill to get to where it is going. You only need courage when you do not fully understand what you are doing, but still want to try your luck to get to the next step in the staircase by jumping over a piece of your ignorance. Ideally, you should leave no ignorance behind, and just be the cat that requires no courage. You do not need to cover death neither with meaning nor with courage if you fully understand it. Meaning is important in life, but not for the purpose of covering up death.

- pleasure. True that you do not need to cover life nor death with pleasure either. But I suspect many people may have misread your word "pleasure" as joy, or lack of suffering. Therefore, they read "suffering is unavoidable, so you have to cover it with meaning and courage". That is not true. I will try to oversimplify it, not sure if that is a good idea, but I will try. What is true, is that there is suffering because of lack of understanding of nature. The more you understand nature, the less suffering there will be. And lack of suffering is joy (it is pleasure in a way, but joy is a better fitting word). The Noble Eightfold Path explains how to gain that understanding. The explanation is not straightforward, and there are too many people misinterpreting and misexplaining it, but with endless dedication and research it is possible to figure it out. Hint: meaning and growth are on that path, but courage - hardly.

I am happy to try and answer any questions.