I have no reason to believe in the immortality of the soul.  But I also have no reason to believe that the death of the soul has anything to do with the death of the body.  So how does the soul die?  I don’t know.  Perhaps we kill it.  The urgent question is not whether the soul survives the death of the body.  The urgent question is whether the soul survives the life of the body.

Leon Wieseltier, Kaddish