"the day of death is better than the day of one's birth" [Ecclesiastes 7:1] "better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof" [Ecclesiastes 7:8] "therefore i went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labor which i took under the sun" [Ecclesiastes 2:20] "for the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee : they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth" [Isaiah 38:18] "all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again" [Ecclesiastes 3:20] ...to dust to dust to dust to dust...