wards against death

Kohelet 9:10:

Whatever it is in your power to do, do with all your might. For there is no action, no reasoning, no learning, no wisdom in Sheol, where you are going.

Pirkei Avot 4:22:

Rabbi Elazar HaKapor would say…do not let your evil impulse assure you that Sheol is a place of refuge for you; because against your will you were created, and against your will you were born, and against your will you live, and against your will you die, and against your will you are destined to give account and reckoning before the King of kings, the Holy One, baruch hu.