All the atoms in our own bodies used to exist in beings that are long dead. We are made of recycled atoms from the bodies of dead dynosaurs and other animals that no longer exist except as microscopic organisms – plants, bodies of water, heavenly bodies, all the way down to the stardust we originally emerged from .
I find the idea of life of death rather facile if I’m honest. Its far better to live a finite but purposeful, fulfilling and free life, then to live a life of everlasting servitude to a deity that has done an abysmal of creating and governing a universe, and has kept knowledge of his existence unnecessarily elusive. As Christopher Hitchens said, ‘There is nothing more, but I want nothing more.’