i found this interesting...

When I deeply contemplate the transient nature of human life, I realize that,from beginning to end, life is impermanent like an illusion. We have not yetheard of anyone who lived ten thousand years. How fleeting is a lifetime!Who in this world today can maintain a human form for even a hundred years?There is no knowing whether I will die first or others, whether death will occurtoday or tomorrow. We depart one after another more quickly than the dewdrops onthe roots or the tips of the blades of grasses. So it is said. Hence, we mayhave radiant faces in the morning, but by evening we may turn into white ashes.Once the winds of impermanence have blown, our eyes are instantly closed and ourbreath stops forever. Then, our radiant face changes its color, and theattractive countenance like peach and plum blossoms is lost. Family andrelatives will gather and grieve, but all to no avail?Since there is nothing else that can be done, they carry the deceased out to thefields, and then what is left after the body has been cremated and has turnedinto the midnight smoke is just white ashes. Words fail to describe the sadnessof it all.Thus the ephemeral nature of human existence is such that death comes to youngand old alike without discrimination.So we should all quickly take to heart thematter of the greatest importance of the afterlife