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After you die, you can remain in something else. You can and do remain in any thing that carries information about your life. Remaining is a matter of degree: you remain more in things that carry more information about your life. You can remain in other living things. If you have any offspring, then some of your genes remain in their genes. And aspects of your life can remain in the memories of others. Your ideas and values can remain in the lives of other people. But you can also remain in things that do not live. You can remain in your skeleton, in your mummy, in your preserved DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid).1
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Steinhart, E.C. (2014). Ghosts. In: Your Digital Afterlives. Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137363862_1
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