Faced in Eternity

[Ecc. 3:19] For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
Befalleth means happening. It is solely the fact that one happening, one event-namely, death – overtakes all things that share mortality. All go to the same place, the grave.
Dieth - Human beings and animals have a similar fate: as the one dieth, so dieth the other.
Preeminence - The word preeminence (advantage) is from the same root as profit and also means what is left over.
Beast - As to their bodies, the change is altogether the same, except the different respects that are paid to them by the survivors. Let a man be buried with the burial of an ass (Jer. 22:19) and what supremacy then has he above a beast? The touch of the dead body of a man, by the Law of Moses, contracted a greater ceremonial pollution than the touch of the carcass even of an unclean beast or fowl. And Qohelet here observes that all go unto one place; the dead bodies of men and beasts decay alike; all are of the dust, in their original, for we see all turn to dust again in their corruption. What little reason then have we to be proud of our bodies, or any bodily accomplishments, when they must not only be reduced to the earth very shortly, but must be so in common with the beasts, and we must mingle our dust with theirs!
[20] All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Dust - All living things are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.
The words dust and turn are the same ones used in Gen. 3:19. The Hebrew word ruah is translated as breath and as spirit. Both humans and animals were thought to depend on the L-rd for the breath which gave them life.
Death is no respecter of persons or animals!
[21] Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
Who knoweth - as if the text gives us a question for which there is not answer? In the nine places where this expression occurs in Scripture, only three are actually questions (2:19; 6:12 and Esther 4:14.) In the two passages that are similar to out text, it is followed by a direct object. The statement is a rhetorical remark that calls for us to remember that it is G-d who knows the difference between persons and beasts.
Qohelet asserts that human beings cannot know anything for certain about what comes after their lives on earth, also in 6:12; 7:14. This may indicate either that his audience has been speculating in ways which Qohelet hopes to discourage or that he is encouraging or provoking them to consider ideas which previously had not been included or developed in their traditions.
There is nothing at all to indicate whether humans have something more left over or whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down to the earth.
In Gen. 2:19 animals were called living creatures – strong’s number is 5315 meaning soul, living being (with life in the blood),
Soul 1395 Here is the description for soul - - could apply to both man and animals.
1) Soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion
a) That which breathes the breathing substance or being, soul, the inner part
b) Living being
c) Living being (with life in the blood)
d) Seat of the appetites
f) Seat of emotions and passions
g) Activity of mind
1) Dubious
h) Activity of the will
1) Dubious
i) Activity of the character
The verbs to go upward and to go downward are active participles with the sign of the article. The concept that people could and did live after death is as old as Enoch himself. The flesh disintegrates into dust as it goes down to the grave.
And Isa. 11:6 and Rev. show that there will be beast and animals in heaven and hell.
It is G-d who will make the final evaluation on life in its totality. Men and women should not live as if G-d were not to be faced in eternity and as if there were nothing more too mortal humans than their flesh that will turn to dust in the grave just as the flesh of animals will. The oral Laws say that even animals will be held accountable for innocent blood shed.
Faced in eternity mankind and beast together, our beloved pets will be there!