There are things that you can do to get rid of stress. There is no reason to say that stress destroys your health. Since if you are miserable then a shorter life is better. The more stress you have the more miserable and unhappy you are.
The goal of a human being is to reach a state of no stress. Being at this state a person feels endless love, perfect peace and limitless happiness. See this
webpage for more on this state that top psychologists have studied and have even labeled it.