"As one dies, so dies the other"
These words were written thousands of years ago, in a book known and read by millions upon millions over the years - possible the most well-known book in the entire world. This knowledge is not something we only figured out yesterday, so to speak. How sad that humanity still doesn't seem to get this basic truth.
Providing a little more context:
I also said to myself, “As for humans, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals. Surely the fate of human beings is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; humans have no advantage over animals. Everything is meaningless. All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return. Who knows if the human spirit rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?”
~ Ecclesiastes 3: 18-21
The above wording comes from the (Christian) NIV Bible.
The original name of Ecclesiastes, from the Tanakh, is "Kohelet" (teacher, preacher). Jewish website Chabad provides a Jewish reading of the text with commentary. Scripture website Mechon Mamre provides the Hebrew text as well. The Jewish Encyclopedia website provides background information on the book of Kohelet.
“Surely the fate of human beings is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath . . .”
— Ecclesiastes 3:19 (A Quote from the Bible / Tanakh)
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Providing a little more context:
I also said to myself, “As for humans, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals. Surely the fate of human beings is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; humans have no advantage over animals. Everything is meaningless. All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return. Who knows if the human spirit rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?”
~ Ecclesiastes 3: 18-21
The above wording comes from the (Christian) NIV Bible.
The original name of Ecclesiastes, from the Tanakh, is "Kohelet" (teacher, preacher). Jewish website Chabad provides a Jewish reading of the text with commentary. Scripture website Mechon Mamre provides the Hebrew text as well. The Jewish Encyclopedia website provides background information on the book of Kohelet.
