“This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.”
The reflection that the fact that all have one fate drives humans to acts of madness and folly, and that their hearts are full of evil, death being the destiny, presents death-awareness as generating nihilistic behavior. The recognition of common fate seems to undermine morality; if all die the same, why not act wickedly? Yet Qohelet does not endorse such madness; he observes it as a response to death-awareness.
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