Life after death?

[Jenny A]

Depends on what mark you're talking about. If you chop down a tree in the forest, that tree won't be there after you die because you used your muscles and some metal to knock it down. Nothing spiritual there.
Then there are the "bigger" things, like the people you helped while alive. That ultimately changes communities, societies, and the world at large for the better or the worse.

Sure. We can do many things that have lasting effect both good and bad after we die. But then so can fault-lines, volcanoes, rivers, trees, comets, stars, and various other things you probably wouldn't consider to have souls.

But in terms of deep time, i.e. billions and billions of years, nothing we do is likely to last.

This doesn't trouble me. I still would like to do good that lasts after my death. It matters to me because it matters to me. There's nothing mystical about it. What matters is that I have a conscious brain here and now.