I would like to offer an answer that is the middle ground. I do not beleive in religious expalnations where there is some very literall explantions of a soul leaving the body and so forth; however, I also think its naive to suggest there is total stoppage as some have suggested here already...and here is my reasoning on that.
When you are alive, your brain is functioning with electric pulses. You brain controls everything, body functions, thoughts, memories, etc. This is fact and proven science. Now consider what a thought or a memory really is from a scientific point of view. A thought is just a collection of electric pulses stored as electic energy. More specifically, even your brain is made up of atoms, and therefore the memories in your brain are merely atoms formulated in a particuliar way.
When you use your brain to think (as if there is any other way), electrons are moving in your brain in a manner we cannot yet totally explain, but the fact is, if we are able to remember and think, we therefore know it works. Now also consider that all matter is atomic and therefore the electrons, neutrons and photons that make up your brain, and the brains storage of thoughts and memories, is made up of the exact same electrons, neutrons and photos (atoms) that make up all matter. Therefore the only differnece between the energy (the atoms) that make up an apple and your memeories is their arrangment.
We know for a fact that atoms do not just disappear just becuase someone dies. Energy is a constant...it just moves from one location to another, but the atoms always exist. Again, proven science. Our best guess is that those atoms that made up our memories just got rearragned, and as to what location, no one really knows. But the fact that same energy that made up your brain alwasy stays in tact is important.
It is logical to assume that if those atoms were to be rearranged back into the identical order that they were in your brain when your body was "alive", then its feasible that those memories, moreover the brain functions, could be recreated merely by arranging the energy is the same exact pattern.
So what does that mean? It means that although it might be near infinitily unlikley that that arrangement could ever be recreated, it is conceivable that it could be. Consider that perhaps its really the same conceivably unlikely odds of recreating that arrangment as it is that we came into existance with such a complex brain and formation of atoms in the first place. Perhaps a religious way of saying the same thing is that it would be no greater miracle to suggest that life exists beyond our current perceptions than the miracle that we came to exist in the first place. That is a terrific philosophical observation, but scientifically its one of those occurances that logically you have to consider.
So where could this energy be recreated since its never eliminated? That I cannot begin to answer. Maybe our memories will remain in tact for all eternitiy in a wave lenth of energy that is too deep for our current brains to access. How deep is that. The truth is, i have not given it much thought as I am comfortable with the idea that I will find out when the time comes.
The logical explanations of energy and our brians process of running on energy should lead even the casual learner to the assumption that brain energy (memories, thoughts) has to go somehwere and doesnt just disappear.
Most people only think of the physical component of death and that all body functions end, whch is true. However, brain fucntions, something not often discussed, and the energy that makes up the amazing features of the brain, can never die. This was the point I hoped to have made with this answer.
2006-07-20 11:19:08
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answered by Marcello 2
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Death simply means complete stoppage of the bodily function of a person when all vital organs mainly heart come to a halt. It is a myth to believe that soul leaves human body and travels to some unknown destination. The operation of the body comes to an end and once the body is cremated or buried it is the end of that life in every respect!
2006-07-20 03:33:00
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answered by Sami V 7
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Whatever anyone thinks or says about this you'll never really know until it happens.
But many people who have had near- death experiences have recalled going toward some other place - usually toward a bright light, and sometimes meeting relatives who have previously died, before coming back to life. Since a lot of people seem to report the same experiences maybe they are real.
2006-07-20 05:43:39
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answered by Anonymous
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It's not something that could be answered like this, but if you really want to know the truth about the life and death, and life after death then study Islam with open mind, check this website www.minhaj.org
2006-07-20 03:34:17
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answered by Anonymous
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God says "Before I created you in the womb, I knew you." I would believe at conception, except for Adam and Eve of course. Michelangelo's painting of God's extended finger touching Adam's finger to receive the spark of life brilliantly illuminates the concept. Since no "one" can create life except God (including Christ and the Holy Spirit), two bodies are required to reproduce life (extend creation forward) . A life is a life until death, inside or outside of the womb, so the soul is the anima or spark of life.
2016-03-27 00:54:27
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answered by Anonymous
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This is a question for which you will have to find your own answer.
There are a bunch of people who will tell you that if you believe
and pray to "their" God...( and there are a bunch of them ) that
you will go to Heaven or be re-born or any number of other great
God reward things..
There are also people who will tell you that when you die, that's
it....You are dead...No soul, no spirit, no God...nothing..
I happen to be one of those who do not believe in any God..
2006-07-20 03:34:14
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answered by Anonymous
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UIf someone actually knew the answer to this questions, they would be the wealthiest person in the world.
2006-07-20 03:29:01
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answered by The Lizard Queen 3
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Death = cessation of life
You die. Period.
What soul?
Next...
2006-07-20 03:28:31
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answered by toejam_rummy 3
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