There Sāriputta addressed the mendicants: “Reverends, mendicants!” “Reverend,” they replied. Sāriputta said this:

“A mendicant lives life so as to not have a good death. And how do they live life so as to not have a good death?

Take a mendicant who relishes work, talk, sleep, company, closeness, and proliferation. They love these things and like to relish them. A mendicant who lives life like this does not have a good death. This is called a mendicant who enjoys identity, who hasn’t given up identity to rightly make an end of suffering.

A mendicant lives life so as to have a good death. And how do they live life so as to have a good death?

Take a mendicant who doesn’t relish work, talk, sleep, company, closeness, and proliferation. They don’t love these things or like to relish them. A mendicant who lives life like this has a good death. This is called a mendicant who enjoys extinguishment, who has given up identity to rightly make an end of suffering.

A creature who likes to proliferate,
enjoying proliferation,
fails to reach extinguishment,
the supreme sanctuary.

But one who gives up proliferation,
enjoying the state of non-proliferation,
reaches extinguishment,
the supreme sanctuary.”