You can't take it with you

 Most religions have a way of saying that death is just a passage to another world, another way of being. There's "go beyond the veil", "pass over" (or the more ridiculous abbreviation "pass"), and "go to a better place" etc. etc. Even some Buddhist meditations on death talk about "not being able to take it with you" (body, possessions etc.), which implies that the dead person is going somewhere.

The Japanese have two ways of expressing death. shinimasu (死()にます) and nakunarimasu (亡()くなります). This latter seems more real, though it is politer than shinimasu. Nakunarimasu can be interpreted as "to become nothing". Which is a more honest expression of the reality.

I had a shock after reading Bad Blood by Lorna Sage...

...she had become nothing. The book was so good I looked for more writings by her, but discovered she had died in January 2001 and did not leave any similar works to Bad Blood. I am not interested in literary criticism.

And doesn't Martin Amis look young here?

 It is the photo (1995) on the back of The Information (one of the fiction books I won't throw away). But he became nothing in May 2023.

And Ricky Gervais in Armageddon said that he is not worried about his "legacy" because he'll be dead (have become nothing) and not know anything about it.

 

I was listening to Bach's The Art Of Fugue...

 

...and when it suddenly and abruptly came to an end (it is an unfinished work, Bach became nothing) I was reminded that I too will one day become nothing. So don't be idle now...