@PseudonymGeist,
Death is a part of our reality, but until we could imagine death, fear death when death was not around we could not conceive of ourselves spiritually, and so we could not conceive of our reality spiritual which result in our general conceiving of everything...
The conservation of matter has been show wrong even while it is generally considered true... And it is true that all of our concepts are conserved... They would be useless if they continually changed their values... It is illogical to think that we or our ideas of the world will survive after our deaths...It is natural enough thought...We have life, so we can conceive of life and only life, which is to say we cannot conceive of death any more than we can conceive of nothing...Life as we live it is an infinite, since we cannot see the end of it, and yet we know objectively that it does end, and to focus on the necessities of our infinite lives we deny that it is finite... But it is finite, and there are not so many spirits surrounding us, of nature, of loved ones, of angels or gods... Lonely as it is, we are alone, and have always been so; and while I might agree that this was a better world when we had some reverence for nature and had to give thanks, and show respect; still it was in its way far more cruel... Humanity can master any nature but our own... We find it easier to change the climate of the world than to change human behavior...
I must disagree about meaning... Meaning is life... All things have greater or lesser meaning, which is to say value- based upon their necessity for life...The smallest critters find meaning in their lives, and we find meaning outside of our lives which often finds us doing much to keep ourselves alive in body that are spiritually exhausting...We are only going over the same questions because, in a sense, we have not got the answers... Now, with the spiritual junk aside, I think Shopenhaur got it right, which is to say that I got it right, and many people got it right...The problems we face are moral, since, even with the correct understanding of knowledge, and how we conceive of reality, some one may take a moral dead end like Nietzsche did... Our problems are not really of science, or knowledge, which is far beyond our ability to keep up in our moral understanding.....