Ashes to ashes, dust to dust! It is the eternal truth. You come and you go; it doesn’t matter how you come and how you go. Life and death signify the beginning and the end of a circle. And when you leave, you are reborn, some say. Because they say your soul is immortal. “vasamsi jirnani yatha vihaya, navani grhnati naro ‘parani, tatha sarirani vihaya jirnany, anyani samyati navani dehi“ (As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, similarly the soul accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones). I do not know about soul or about being reborn like a tree growing from a seed buried in the dirt. But I do know our genes continue its eternal journey from one body to another using our mortal body as its carrier. Some call it the selfish gene. But as a mortal, death is…
