"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...