"There are only two possibilities. Either you die and some part of you lives on, or you die and no part of you lives on. If the first is true, you don't really die, and there's nothing to fear. If the second is true, you'll wink out of existence and never know it, and there's nothing to fear."
InJoy your dad sounds like a very insightful man. That makes it a win/win situation.
Personally, I don't think we get off that easily. I can't imagine that all the knowledge and experience we accumulate in this life is for nothing. I believe in reincarnation and that we never die.
In physics, the law of conservation of energy states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed; it can only change form.
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