sensubmaybe
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I'm not a scientist, I don't really know and I don't totally understand what you mean when you say our bodies are a mass of energy. They are a collection of cells with distinct forms: derma, organs, tissues, blood and other fluids, and bones and marrow. They begin to decompose; they rot. Where does the energy of an apple core go when you just let it still out? I don't know about its energy, but the core simply rots. That's what we do unless something else is done.
Buddhists sometimes let their bodies lay in the open for vultures to eat and theoretically nourish upon. The flesh moves through their bowels and is expelled. The gases disperse into the air, some parts go into the ground as nutrients and according to where it ends up it could feed things that grow. Then someone picks what has grown from this soil and it goes on a plate and someone else eats it. Perhaps that is one tangible afterlife, but if that's the case, it's not too satisfying to me as an afterlife to look forward to. That said, while here on earth now, I appreciate the value of somehow becoming part of a greater cycle and providing something that will go on into the universe in that form. But to me, that isn't exactly what most folks have in mind when they speak of reincarnation or an afterlife or the soul or spirit's continuation and rebirth. And besides, as a poster after me so succinctly pointed out, most people rot away and decompose slowly over time inside to confines of a airless wooden box. In the western world, most, at least many Christians, embalm so now the body is drained of blood and stuffed full of chemicals that probably won't decompose for a thousand years. A more likely outcome is that those agents will seep into the earth becoming toxins and doing the complete opposite of what I described before.
I think the bottom line for me is that once my consciousness is gone; once my thoughts, words, memories, consciousness of the moment, thoughts of the future, and my emotions no longer exist, whatever this "energy mass" turns into is not a satisfying result nor a convincing afterlife that would give me any solace to make it easier to accept my and your and everyone's mortality. To me, it's just easier (most days) to accept that chances are nothing happens: we're simply gone. What happens to our remains is not me, it's what once was me because at that point I'll be dead.
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We've invented countless ideas about some sort of continuation and afterlife, reincarnation, soul/spirit progression through some sort of cosmic energy flow into some higher reality, and in the end, I think it's all feel-good bullshit we tell ourselves to get through, to obliterate, at least temporarily, the hard reality that this is all there is and it won't last forever and once it's over, it's over; we had our time here and now it's done.
Ok, but our bodies are a mass of energy...so where does the energy go when the body dies?
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