Life after death?

[Jenny A]

But weren't you speaking of a soul that lasts forever? An actual entity rather than some concept? I don't have a problem with the casual use of the word "soul" to denote that we tend to see others as more than just objects.

I didn't think you would. That's why we're all people.
en·ti·ty noun \ˈen-tə-tē, ˈe-nə-\ something that has separate and distinct existence and objective or conceptual reality
Simply put, once you die, you go brain-dead and your body decomposes. But what gets your family members to cry about it (religions call it a 'soul'), can't really disappear because your existence is undoable. Even after you are long forgotten, the kind of person you were will still have an indelible mark on human history and the universe in a way distinct from any other lifeform.

Well your existence is undoable in the sense that it did happen. But, it's mark on the universe may not have much to do with who you were. There are countless jokes and novels about the man or woman competing with their spouse's dead husband or wife, and losing because the memory is of perfect being who never really existed.

Our stories, even perhaps especially about the famous, are largely apocryphal.