If death (assuming no afterlife) erases your conciousness, it should also erase your memory of ever having been concious. It should be as though you never existed at all, right? Not just future and present gone, but past.
So then how are we here, being concious and remembering stuff? How could that be unless the universe is inherently static, or at least endlessly self-repeating, and us being concious is just a permanent feature of our corner of it?
Has anyone else thought about this or am I just rambling?
The things that are are material things. There is no "conscious" which memorizes, there is a physical body which in my opinion has the emergent property of the illusion of conscious and memory.
The idea of passing time is intuitive and you dying doesn't destroy the universe itself (only your conscious illusion of yours), as your body will not be able to do the processes which give you aforementioned illusion.