There is no death of the soul – just a sloughing of the body at the end of each cradle-to-grave round. The purpose of life is to work off your karma, accumulated through all your actions.
When you were born, you
cried and the world
rejoiced. Live
your
life so that when
you die, the world cries
and you rejoice.
For Westerners, the Wheel of Life is a simple NLP tool for visualizing all areas of ones life at once to see where he/she/it needs improvement and/or balancing.