Uta–Napishtim, the deadless ancestor, at the end of the world, greets Gilgamesh.

"What have you gained
by upsetting yourself so?
by distressing yourself,
you have simply exhausted yourself,
making your muscles heavy
with weariness
drawing ever closer
to your distant end!"

"Does the flooding or rivers
endure?
Like nymphs of the dragon–fly
Carried away in the current,
the faces
that suddenly
saw the sun,
are no more!
The sleeping and the dead
How alike they are!
We have never reproduced
the image of Death:
and yet man, from the very start,
is its prisoner!"

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