> Do you really lament your own death or do you have a feeling of 'I will be continued.' The rabbi is very blessed and I am happy for him, but it is important

> Do you really lament your own death or do you have a feeling of 'I will be continued.' The rabbi is very blessed and I am happy for him, but it is important to note that this line involves an equivocation of two meanings of "continuation", using the figurative meaning (in the sense of "legacy") to suggest the literal meaning (immortality). Legacy is all fine and good, but it is no substitute for immortality. Furthermore, legacy without immortality merely passes the buck: those children and grandchildren, too, will die. The human species and the universe will probably be extinguished. So even the value of legacy really presupposes the immortality of the human person. To wit, a true materialist, trapped, as he is, in bad metaphysics, cannot take comfort in legacy on his death bed. His life, and the lives of everyone else, are reducible to nothing but meaningless atoms bouncing around aimlessly in a void, temporary arrangements that briefly coagulate and then dissolve. Nothing lasts, nothing progresses, nothing makes any difference, all is senseless flux. Perhaps the materialist simply won't care about his passing, as it will be as meaningless as the rest of his brief existence.