Rob,
My religious background is admittedly like most Europeans, not very rich. And I'm trying to remove the need to believe in something for which we have no proof. Maybe a way to survive after death is by leaving something for others to think about, to read, to admire or to be in contact with. But that's not really our decision; it would be our successor's. I'm amazed I can find references to what I've done on the net since I first used it in 1997. But it's "virtual"; nonetheless, could this be as meaningful as those very old stones our ancestors left (and they are very often tombs) or more? The great pyramids in Egypt were probably meant for future generations but what about those who built them? We don't know much about them. Now we have an overflow of information about anybody. Perhaps, we'll be able to store a virtual avatar of ourselves on the internet, an avatar that will go on evolving, learning in the virtual world, after we would have taught him everything about ourselves. Those avatars could be our successors...

Raoul