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by saucymew 104 days ago
An interesting Asian counterpart is the Japanese death haiku.

MUMON GENSEN

Died on the twenty-second day of the third month, 1390 at the age of sixty-eight

Life is an ever-rolling wheel

And every day is the right one.

He who recites poems at his death

Adds frost to snow.