An important point:
When you die, you have to be as close to the highest point of your inner evolution as possible. And have acted on it, expressing it, changing the world around you in accordence to to it. Because when you die - you do not exactly perish. Not completely. Whenever it is a religious thing, like soul or a ghost, or a memory of the ones you knew, or something you left behind, like a book or a theory - in any case you continue to exist. But you no longer evolve. You can not change, can not add anything to to your final bet against the eternity and entropy. So evolve. Every minute of your life, strife towards what you can be. There is a limit, but trust me, very few people stop because of it.