4There is hope, however, for anyone who is among the living; for even a live dog is better than a dead lion.
5For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.
6Their love, their hate, and their envy have already vanished, and they will never again have a share in all that is done under the sun.
— Ecclesiastes 9:4-6