A wise king of old wrote: "For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing at all, nor do they have any more reward,because all memory of them is forgotten. Also, their love and their hate and jealously have already perished, and they no longer have any share in what is done under the sun."(Ecclesiastes9:5,6) King Solomon was inspired to write about the condition of the dead , those scriptures make clear that the dead are conscious of nothing at all. Hence, according to the Bible, there is no activity, feeling, emotion, or thought in death. We also possess a keen sense of time and a perception of eternity. King Solomon wrote that God “has planted eternity in men’s hearts.”(Ecclesiastes 3:11) Under normal circumstances we want to keep living indefinitely. We want life with no expiration date. Death was not part of God's original purpose for mankind. The Creator himself promises: “From the hand of Sheol [the common grave] I shall redeem them; from death I shall recover them. Where are your stings, O Death? Where is your destructiveness, O Sheol?”( Hosea 13 :14 ) Another Bible prophecy states that God “will actually swallow up death forever, and the Sovereign Lord Jehovah will certainly wipe the tears from all faces.”( Isaiah 25:8).