I was probably 6 or 7 when my parents first told me that I would never ‘really’ die. I thought about it for months.

Have you ever been part of a group?
Have you watched how the group has a life, a mind of its own, that feels like an individual identity?
Who are you without the group?
Do you live on, do you continue to have a life and a mind of your own when the group ‘dies’?

Have you realised that a human being is an ecosystem?
We consist of trillions of cells and bacteria. To imagine that we are an ‘individual’ is erroneous.

The consciousness of the food we eat, the person who cooks our food, the people we spend our time with, the memories of and relationship between the cells within our body all affect our ‘life and minds’. We are a group identity. When we die, that group dies.

But the cells don’t.
A part of you is unperishable even by fire and decay. You live on forever. Just not as a ‘group’ anymore, but as a trillion separate pieces that have a life and a mind of their own.