If it helps there is absolutely no reason to believe there is a privileged NOW and everything before is gone. It’s like believing that walking over a path destroys the path behind you somehow. So ultimately after a fashion you are more eternal than stars. You are an edifice erected in eternity from inception to destruction. Einstein didn’t believe in reincarnation but he did believe in a block universe.
If it helps there is absolutely no reason to believe there is a privileged NOW and everything before is gone. It’s like believing that walking over a path destroys the path behind you somehow. So ultimately after a fashion you are more eternal than stars. You are an edifice erected in eternity from inception to destruction. Einstein didn’t believe in reincarnation but he did believe in a block universe.