ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the question of meaning in life through the question of the immortality of the person. From time immemorial, theologians, philosophers, and non-professional thinkers alike have thought that some meaning to life is found in immortality—the continued existence of the person after death. If the soul does something that the body cannot do, think, then there is no reason to think that the death of the soul necessarily entails the death of the body. Socrates' response differs from Ivan Ilych's, Albert Camus', and from that implicit in Peggy Lee's song because they differ in their views of the human knowing capacity. If such really happen, there is additional evidence for the ability of the human knowing capacity to transcend the limits of the body. It seems that the soul operates independently of the body in thinking.
