They were meant to be. But exactly what they were meant to be is not quite clear.

A deadpan young man obsessed with death meets an eccentric septuagenarian who teaches him to live life to the fullest.
Harold and Maude keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing mortality, love, freedom, rebellion.