That being NOTHING. We did not exist before conception, and we will not exist after death.

Yes, the circle will be broken
By and by, yes, by and by.
There is no life after this life.
When we die we simply die.

You will also recall them that Arthur remarked in The World As Will And Representation

“...on the path of objective knowledge, thus starting from the representation, we shall never get beyond the representation, i.e. the phenomenon. We shall therefore remain at the outside of things: we shall never be able to penetrate into their inner nature, and investigate what they are in themselves, in other words, what they may be by themselves”

We can’t know what anything is other than our representation if it.

Consciousness is non existent to the dead or unborn. A state of consciousness in the living, however, makes it difficult to imagine either.