The last words of Buddha: "...strive on untiringly..."

"The Buddha saw death and life as inseparable. These are two sides of the same thing. Death is always with us. Death is part of a whole large unknown. And if we are unable to smile at the idea of the unknown we're in big trouble. That's the realism the Buddha was talking about, trying to come to terms with reality."

- W.S. Merwin, PBS Documentary - The Buddha

http://www.pbs.org/thebuddha/