Life is the ripples on the edge of the waterfall, as the water fall down into the abyss below. A living being will some day become inanimate matter. Matter may become a living being again, but after a time it will become matter again. Everything of matter will one day return to matter. Everything will one day become matter.
Energy is change or potential change.
But when something changes, entropy will increase. The energy will become a little bit more degraded. Otherwise it wouldn't be able to effect any ordered changes. Soon the energy will be dissipated, hopefully doing useful work. Only heat will remain.