Will Death Die? By Yochanan Zaqantov What is ... - Karaite Judaism

living Can give thanks to You, As I do this day; Fathers relate to children Your acts of
grace:
Again only the living may communicate with Yehovah and praise and give thanks to him.
The Tanakh makes it clear that existence ends with death.
Ecclesiastes 3:19-20
18 So I decided, as regards men, to dissociate them [from] the divine beings and to face
the fact that they are beasts. 19 For in respect of the fate of man and the fate of beast,
they have one and the same fate: as the one dies so dies the other, and both have the same
lifebreath; man has no superiority over beast, since both amount to nothing.
In Melekh Solomon’s time there may have been discussions whether men were divine
beings or not but in his wisdom he saw them as beasts. Like the animals we all die.
Ecclesiastes 9:2-6
2 —none! For the same fate is in store for all: for the righteous, and for the wicked; for
the good and pure, and for the impure; for him who sacrifices, and for him who does not;
for him who is pleasing, and for him who is displeasing; and for him who swears, and for
him who shuns oaths. 3 That is the sad thing about all that goes on under the sun: that
the same fate is in store for all. (Not only that, but men’s hearts are full of sadness, and
their minds of madness, while they live; and then—to the dead!) 4 For he who is
reckoned among the living has something to look forward to—even a live dog is better
than a dead lion—5 since the living know they will die. But the dead know nothing;
they have no more recompense, for even the memory of them has died. 6 Their loves,
their hates, their jealousies have long since perished; and they have no more share till the
end of time in all that goes on under the sun.
Both wicked and righteous die. The dead know nothing they don't even have a memory.
Only while living do we have a chance to affect our lives.
Shemu’el Bet/II Samuel 12:16-23
16 David entreated Elohim for the boy; David fasted, and he went in and spent the night
lying on the ground. 17 The senior servants of his household tried to induce him to get
up from the ground; but he refused, nor would he partake of food with them. 18 On the
seventh day the child died. David’s servants were afraid to tell David that the child was
dead; for they said, “We spoke to him when the child was alive and he wouldn’t listen to
us; how can we tell him that the child is dead? He might do something terrible.” 19
When David saw his servants talking in whispers, David understood that the child was
dead; David asked his servants, “Is the child dead?” “Yes,” they replied. 20 Thereupon
David rose from the ground; he bathed and anointed himself, and he changed his clothes.
He went into the House of Yehovah and prostrated himself. Then he went home and