Once you're dead, that's the end of your earthly story. That's what makes the message of the gospel so mind-boggling. It heralds the great exception to the universal law that death is the guaranteed end of everybody's story. There's no possibility of a reappearance and a postscript added to one's life. But Jesus, breaking the power of the grave, did reappear, convincing His doubting disciples that He was alive again.
Death is the last chapter of time and the first chapter of eternity.