if you are part of the universe experiencing itself then in a way when you die everyone dies. in that the universe ceases to know them any further through your experience. yet at the same time the universe learns deeper about grief and its measure of love.
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Way I understand it is a bit diff.
I think death is not final and therefore universe still continues to experience itself through that individual. That individual would exist as a non material entity and perhaps come back to the material realm if needed or perhaps move on. materiality is just one form the energy with which we are made of can take.
I also just looked out the window and saw a tree. What if we are like a leaf or a fruit on a tree. An individual in some respects but still part of the tree as a whole. When the fruit or leaf falls to the ground it nourishes the ground further with its biological material and serves to 'update' and further give its experience back to the tree as a whole. That same tree then produces more fruit.
What if, to add to the tree analogy, we have not only a material fruit body but a spiritual (non-material) fruit body that can reincarnate into another fruit body after it dies. This is as I understand it how Vedic (Hindu) scriptures think about humans and other material entities.
Just randomly thought up the tree analogy. Unsure if it works just ideas :)