We die. Our bodies decompose. And, then, we become stardust, as before.

Here's what i think, we are born of star's that have exploded, and then gravity brings it all together to make another type of star and planets (how our solor system was created), and when we die, we return to the earth as we rott, then some day our sun will explode and it will start all over again. so when you die, you will be reborn, but you your self is dead and its over. you will not even remember nor realize you are dead.

I guess we finally get to understand the point of it all... Or not!

OOOOOooooooo............

We are changed into what ever it is we will end up as, then be changed once again. Just as we are the product of a stars death, something will be the product of us. It's interesting to think that we are actually immortal.

Your body rots

Rot or burn your choice there's not many other options personally I'd like a Tibetan sky funeral but that's not going to happen

Ask me in a few months. I am in fourth stage (many places) Large Cell Lymphoma, over 74 years old. I will not survive this cancer...too many negatives. However, being a High-Functioning Asperger's syndrome person, I will not go through the "four stages" of dying as suggested in Kebbler-Ross's book. We only go through the last one...acceptance. So, in a few months I will know what happens...but I already know, I think.

Personally, I believe the standard science.

BUT since you asked for another take: I've been writing a story lately in which there IS a 'god' of sorts and it parasitises the human race, giving us a piece of its own consciousness when we're born and taking it back, cultivated when we die — that's how it gets its energy, and it also gets its kicks from experiencing a physically manifested life.

So that's a different take on it... In that universe, reincarnation could occur because occasionally a new 'soul' is generated with most of the remnants of a returned one before it's had chance to dissipate back into the brainpool.

Meh, I should start my own religion... Screw this atheism lark, I'm outta here. ?

you turn into plant food

Who knows i don't believe any of us know.

Well if you were just a smile and a twinkle in your parents' eyes at one time, hopefully eyes will smile and twinkle as they remember you after you're gone as well.

Convincing accounts by small children who remember past lives suggest to me that consciousness survives death for at least some of us.

Nothing.Next question

Worm food, fertilizer, compost.

Nothing else. Everything we are or would ever be ceases.

We stop eating and paying taxes.

I know there is something. I lost my partner to suicide about 5 3/4 years ago. Within a week after his death my sons computer came on with ITunes (he hadn’t put in on), the first song was “I’m okay”, a couple of days later it happened again “running out of gas”. I do not dream but I had 3 dreams with him in them (information is personal) except the last dream I saw him driving and called to him but he just drove off. About 3 months after his death I was in our holiday place alone and the touch lamp went up 1 level, then level 2, then level 3. I thought there had to be a power surge but the other touch lamps didn’t do it. It repeated it a second time. At home my blind flicks up a lot shortly after he died gradually decreasing. I went to a medium who was spot on picking the way he died, describing my house layout without ever seeing it and lots of other things she didn’t know.I am not an influenced person, or gullibility. Do I definately believe in a spirit after death

we'll all find out eventually ... meanwhile , I won't be concerned.

The pars in your body stop working

You die,nothing else.

Your finally at peace with yourself.