Ecclesiastes 9:4-6

4Anyone who is alive in the world has some hope for good things in the future. It is better to be a dog that is alive than to be a lion that is dead.

5People who are alive know that they will die one day. But dead people do not know anything. No more good things can happen to them. Nobody remembers them.

6Everything that they did in the world has finished. If they loved people, if they hated people, if they were jealous of people, all that has finished. They no longer having anything to do with the things that happen on the earth.