Bishop J. L. Payne, "Death of a Fool" Again, when we look close at life, it is a one-way street that ends in a dead end. To sum all of life up in our brief duration on this earth is to have a limit and unfulfilled existences. Living and acquiring things in this life only upon the earth limits our potential to be our fullest self. To live outside of eternal terms is to short-change our true self. There can be nothing but unhappiness when this occurs. This is the complimentary of so many who only sought prosperity in this life alone and to die as a fool die, without God and 'not to know and have' hope of an eternal life.