The light doesn't "stop", my friend. It travels. Very fast. So does the soul. You cannot destroy energy, but you can move it around, that's for sure. When you slow the vibrating energy of which atoms are composed down some, it becomes what we perceive as a gaseous substance. Slow it down more and it becomes a liquid. Slow it even more and it becomes a solid. Speed it up greatly (by combustion, for example) and it moves in the other direction, and becomes gaseous substance, water vapour, light, and release of heat. Speed it up even more and it passes beyond the spectrum of visible light into spiritual energy or the pure energy of thought, which you cannot see, smell, taste, touch, or fathom.

The only reason people fear death is because they don't remember what comes afterward. They are a broadcast program which fears its own extinction when a hand turns off the radio, because they imagine that they ARE the radio. What actually happens is: they are no longer trapped inside the radio.

Everyone fears death, atheists and nonbelievers in reincarnation included...and they all deal with that fear in their own subjective manner. Most just run away from it by concentrating on ephemeral matters like: food, sex, pleasure, gossip, work, play, ambition, "success", war, competition, etc.

- LH