“For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.” (James 4:14)
The older I get the more this hits home. Good thing I also have read the following...
“But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep (vanished away) so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope…For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead (those who vanished away) in Christ will rise…comfort one another with these words.” (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18)