You misunderstand what I meant. I just meant that because of the Law of Conservation of Energy that our souls don't just disappear they become something else. I never maintained that they still kept a personality or identity. I was merely stating that the energy still exist after we die
I'm entirely too used to people that believe in an afterlife or this and that, that death causes them to acheive a form of immortality and the idea that perhaps the self isn't what you thought it was is all kind of blasphemous.
I never understood that personally, the idea that death affords us a bodiless immortality that's better than life and that life's not worth living it's the afterlife or next life that is. If you want to spend your days thinking death is merely a transformation to the immortal soul and miss everything right in front of you, go ahead I suppose. You can't begin living life, really, until you appreciate death for what it is.
We can't say for sure... I don't know what happens, and I honestly won't pronounce myself on what I believe, because I don't even know what I believe about what happens after death. Our physical self just stops working, but what happens with the rest? I don't know.
I don't exactly know what I believe when it comes to this subject, but I've narrowed it down to three choices.
1. Everything ends. You lose conscious being, memory, etc. EVERYTHING is over. It just stops. This idea is what I like to believe when I get depressed.. but then, when I think deeply, I realize how in touch I am with my ability to consciously be aware of being alive and here, etc.
2. You live in the middle, kinda. Not really death, not really life, just kinda wandering around doing whatever you want. This is probably my paranormal skepticism creeping in.
3. You go to "heaven". Not the religious heaven, just.. like, a place where you can do what you want, be who you want, go where you want. It looks however you want, etc. If you want a green sky, it happens, etc. That's just my childhood imagination clinging to my mind, :P
I believe we are all a part of something grater, and when we die, we become one with it again, until we split off and are re-born to experience new things.
no one knows and you will never know. well, until you die. this is a question people question all the time but, truth is you will never get an answer when you're alive. don't worry about death.