As an atheist, how do you feel about dead people, specifically, bluntly, dead bodies, including, ultimately, your own?

[cachukis]

11. Some years ago, I concluded the greatest people of

all time, died unnoticed. They did not seek power.
They sought a good meal and developed a regularity of good meals. They enjoyed a modicum of hedonism, when time allowed.
They advanced a thought process to maintain a preparedness for emergency working to keep emergency at bay.
Some fell prey to pride unaware of the lessons learned from their falls. Regardless, they left no monuments.
Still, recognizing the evolution of our minds requires a thought about the experiences of our forbears. Hence, a passing nod will embellish a self respect of the human experience.
As to attention to remains, learning about the connections between matter and energy seems an admirable choice. Dust to dust is going to happen
Some say we are merely a receptor of a consciousness from long ago, but without the catalyst to examine, it becomes moot.
If we have a soul that is supposed to be alert through eternity, why are there so many gaps of nothing?
Thoughts of mortality are not morbid for me. Enjoying the time left, not anxious to go. But death is not fixable and ultimately forgetable.