A verse from the prophet Zechariah
A matter of life we should all remember

Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live forever?
Zechariah 1:5

Put that next to James 4:13-15:
Go to now, ye that say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

Christian faith exceeds death. Rejoice in 1 Thessalonians 4:16;
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: