‘I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.’4 Again, he affirmed his conviction that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined for extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of man’s achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins.5

Stott, John (2012-12-28). Why I Am a Christian (Kindle Locations 875-880). InterVarsity Press. Kindle Edition.