In partial modification of Siddhartha aka Gautam Buddha's quote "DNA (i.e. a lamp) generates (i.e. lights up) another DNA (i.e. lamp)", we can understand that life (i.e. DNA) exists (in the filial generation) even after death (of the parent generation).
Dr. Strobbe,
I hope you will find my interpretation in accordance with biology; discrete though not concrete enough.