We never really die?

Question

A friend and I came up with a theory but we're not sure if there is some kind of religion or people that think of this as an actual theory:

Since energy is neither created nor destroyed we will never cease to exist. When we decompose are body will become carbon and go back into the earth and form more organisms which will become living things. Your concious will die but your energy/body will become something else.

I don't believe in god but this theory is pretty much something i think is interesting.

I don't believe in spirits either

Answer 1

Sure, the atoms that make up your body will continue to exist. But you do really die. Everything that makes you who you are will cease to exist. Your thoughts, your memories, your personality, your consciousness, none of them will exist after you die. You aren't just a bunch of atoms, you exist because those atoms are in specific places, in specific formations, and doing specific things. When you die, 'you' won't exist anymore.

Answer 2

Sniff sniff... do I detect the distinctive odour of male bovine by-product?

The carbon (and other elements) that made up our bodies when we were born changes many times during our lives so that none of us are made of the same stuff when we die as when we are born. The carbon that made us at birth has been used a thousand times before - perhaps a tree, a fish, the shell of a snail or the chalk of a cliff. After we die our carbon is again recycled and in time may become any one of countless other carbon-containing things, living or dead. This is perhaps the incontravertible basis of reincarnation. Matter is never destroyed, simply changed, modified, reused and recycled.

As for energy... energy is generated by metabolic processes within the living body... when you die the energy is lost just like a battery running out of power. There is no energy left behind because the cellular processes that generated it have ceased.

Answer 3

Well, I admire your deductive reasoning but I fear you may have been beaten to this theory by a few others... but that doesn't matter.

Existence forever is moot though, because the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics means that even though energy cannot be destroyed, the universe will tend towards entropy. The atoms that make up your brain and which participate in your apparent consciousness will exist for eternity, but they will be cold and still and disparate when the universe has cooled down and died.

All the more reason to have fun now, I say!

Answer 4

The spirit that is the conciousness leaves the carbon-based body and enters a new realm where a perfect body, which already exists, is given that conciousness (the soul). Matter and energy can neither be created nor destroyed but only changed in form. No one knows what the perfect body is made of .. only God knows.

Answer 5

well it's not so much a theory as a fact, the ground we grow our food in is imbued with the flesh of thousands dead, the air we breath now has been breathed a million times the water passed through the bladders of people thousands of miles away hundreds of years ago.

Even if it's only a molecule, you have a part of someone that existed in a different land and a different era as part of your very core… as you will come to be part of someone else. Wether that person would be different without that presence - who knows…

Answer 6

Soul is a light of God and lives forever. It has no begining nor ending. Man actually doesn't die but change a place of living or existence during death.

Answer 7

TheBible states at Ecclesiastes 9:5,10
5 For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten. 6 Also, their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished, and they have no portion anymore to time indefinite in anything that has to be done under the sun.

7 Go, eat your food with rejoicing and drink your wine with a good heart, because already the [true] God has found pleasure in your works. 8 On every occasion let your garments prove to be white, and let oil not be lacking upon your head. 9 See life with the wife whom you love all the days of your vain life that He has given you under the sun, all the days of your vanity, for that is your portion in life and in your hard work with which you are working hard under the sun. 10 All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in She´ol, the place to which you are going.

Answer 8

It's childish to not accept the inevitability of death. We are born, live, and die. There is nothing more, and there is no reason to fear death. You will experience after death the same as that which you experienced not long before birth.

Nothing.

Answer 9

True-
but being dust in the ground doesn't seem like nearly as much fun as being an alive human.

Answer 10

Buddhism believes pretty much the same thing but the mind goes on... not "energy".

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