If it is designed at all, yes. [it does rankle a little to be so subtly-yet-bluntly accused of failure, but things are hardly so black and white.

after combing stray hair over her ear, she proceeds along the line of headstones to stop before the nearest, rifling through her notes to confirm the name.]

One could suppose much of what happens here is...byproduct. Circumstance. Culminations of other designs of which we and the happenings are but collateral. Certainly we are not the only beings trapped here, but so far we are the most visible...and autonomous.