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