19 For the fate of humans and the fate of animals is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and humans have no advantage over the animals; for all is vanity.

20 All go to one place; all are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

21 Who knows whether the human spirit goes upward and the spirit of animals goes downward to the earth?

Ecclesiastes 3:19-21, NRSV Catholic Edition. Copyright © 1989, 1993 by the National Council of the Churches of Christ.
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