dead or alive

So, I came across an article whilst browsing the most reliable, (cough, cough), source of information in the universe...the WWW.
The article was a run-down of recently and not-so-recently deceased stars of music, movies and television and what their estate's net worth was over the last calendar year. It was quite eye-opening to see that some of the names on the list were actually more monetarily successful in death than in life.
Also, it seems you can make a tidy living for your surviving family members from the great beyond, if you have certain marketable characteristics... copyright for music or books as well as the rights to market your name or image.
Anyway, it was morbidly fascinating and got me thinking...
I've made the joke with my wife over the years, that I'm worth more dead than alive...life insurance etc...
But I never thought about it from a spiritual perspective.
Stick with me, this might be a bit of a stretch.
When we commit our lives to follow Christ, scripture tells us we are dead to sin and the old way of life. In a sense we die to ourselves or as Paul puts it; "the old has gone, the new has come."
So in the spiritual sense, we are made alive through Christ when we put our old lives to death. So, when you look at the life you lived pre-Christ, you are worth more dead than alive, because of the total re-birthing that takes place when you commit your life to Christ.
Committing your life to follow Christ might just be the greatest leap your personal net worth has ever taken!
Anyway, just a silly observation...but it begs the question, what is the life your living worth from an eternal perspective?
thoughts to ponder...