Death is the end, death is the beginning.

To the pleasure-lover,
    Death is the end.

To the joy-lover,
    Death is the beginning.

To the pleasure-lover,
    Death is the end
    Of his desire-life.

To the joy-lover,
    Death is the beginning
    Of his aspiration-inquiry.
Sri Chinmoy, The silence of death, Aum Press, Puerto Rico, 1973