The fact that everything dies is a fundamental truth. No matter who you are or what you have it will all be gone eventually. Religious notions of an afterlife apart, no one really argues with that.

I wonder if the significance of “everything dies” is different when you believe that the world is value-based rather than fact-based. If it is based on value then the imagination plays a greater role up against the stark givens of a fact-based universe. There must be limitations certainly but with value as the source of things just where these limitations are is fuzzy as reality becomes bound up in consciousness. It’s not so crazy with an ontology of value to say that reality can be whatever you make it with some boundaries thrown in for good measure. There are many common-sense folks who actually believe that.

I think that believing in the supremacy of value over fact makes for a happier life regardless of truth. People who have faith, religious or otherwise, tend to be more content. A life that adheres to a value-based ontology is a life lived happier.