"Although there is happiness in life, there is also suffering. The happiness seems so fleeting -
gone in no time only to be replaced by sorrow and discontent. Life itself, because it ends in death, is a tragedy. Someone once said life is like an onion: you peel it crying. The Buddha says birth is suffering because it leads inevitably to decay and death. We must understand this well. If we accept life we must accept death. If we want to cry when somebody dies, then we should also cry at his birth. For the moment a baby is born the seed of death is in him. But we are happy when a child is born. We laugh and congratulate the parents. If we understand birth - that it must lead to death -
then when death comes we should be able to face it with a smile."

- Visuddhacara