I only read the first paragraph. We will just be a decomposing body giving nutrients to the soil and bugs. If cremated I’ll just be a pile of dust on a beach or at the base of a beautiful tree.

I think death is what it was like before we were borne.

Your belief/opinion of what happens after death does not harm anyone so I certainly have no issue with it whatsoever. Personally, I believe that after we die our consciousness ceases and everything that we were, outside of our organic bodies, ceases to exist. Our "light" goes out and is gone forever and nothing at all comes afterwards.

We don't know what happens after we die.

Sorry - silly comnent, my warped sense of humour is getting the better of me.

You're going to discuss being dead for a moment?

Who's dead for a moment? Once people are dead, they're dead forever!

@FvckY0u You are a gnostic. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I know that I'm just another organism. When the oxygen leaves my brain, the ibid that is me will cease to exist. It will happen in the next 30 years or less. Fade to black. I am an an atheist.

I am sure if one actually knew of the energy that left the body upon death the wealthy and the so called religious leaders would find a way to make overtly more profit from it than they do now!!!

Yet another, "i'm too special to actually be gone" thingy....yawn!

When you are dead you are dead. Your life is done. Everybody bends over backwards to try and prove an afterlife but it simply cannot be done. Being dead must somehow be sort of like it was before you were born. Let me explain it differently. The dead know nothing and they cannot hurt you. Gangsters and crooks kill each other all the time. If this turned the dead into spirits that knew everything and could interact with the living in any form you would have spirits at war with the living and killing them all the time. Revenge would be a good motive for this. It might make a good book or movie. A comedy maybe, but it does not happen. OK, it happens in the bible but that is not real either. It's not that I want to die. It's just that I have lived long enough to stop making shit up. There is zero evidence for any afterlife. We are not caterpillars or butterflies.

I am sorry to disagree, but I do not think that there is any such thing as death, or any such state as being dead. There is merely life, and when that life ends there is no life, that is all.

Human culture invents many words for things that do not exist, ( Not just dragons and gods. ) in part because of misunderstanding the limited and fudged information our senses send us. Such as dark for example. There is no such thing as dark, only a absence of light, but our senses show us blackness to indicate the absence of light, so our cultures imagine that light must have an opposite, and we name it dark. Likewise cold is not the opposite of heat, but merely its absence, though our senses have evolved to make us avoid places where there is little heat. Because that makes our heat dissipate too fast and that is dangerous to us. So our cultures label our senses instruction with the name "cold", even though heat does not have an opposite. So it is that life does not have an opposite, merely an absence.

We label the absence of life "death" as in part also as a convenient short cut, since it it shorter than saying. "Absence of life and the dissipation of our information content by entropy." But we should not confuse terminology with truth.

You posted this, so I assume you wanted feedback. So here's mine.

We probably agree that no one knows for certain. And it appears to me that we're unlikely to find out any time soon. So it's fine to want to know, but no amount of discussion or conjecture is going to bring that knowledge. All we can reasonably hope for is to, given the facts that we do know, fashion for ourselves an operating system, or worldview, that helps us navigate this life in the most successful way - how ever we might individually define success.

Here, we run into the problem of values. What works for me might not work for you, and vice versa. And that's as it should be.

At some point though, we each individually have to decide whether we value comfort over truth or truth over comfort. Not that they are always opposing, but when they are... we have to choose.

And even if we choose truth, it isn't always available, as in this case.

So what's next best?

Whatever is most likely true, given all the factors and influences that we are aware of.

Personally, I want my best guess to be as close to the truth as I can get it - comfort be damned. I have nothing against comfort, but when it's at the expense of truth, it can set us up for greater discomfort later, so I'd rather find a way to adjust to the unvarnished truth now, than to have the untruth trip me up later when I least expect it, and when it is likely to do more harm.

Here are the factors that I use to calculate my best guess:

I know that humans have instincts that are molded by evolution to produce the greatest likelihood of survival and reproduction, rather than the greatest likelihood of knowing cosmic truths.

This is why humans invented science.

Our feelings tell us what evolution "wants" us to believe in order to get our genes into the next generation. We are virtually made out of confirmation bias. We have known for four hundred years that our feelings cannot be relied upon to tell us the objective facts about the universe.

So the question I must ask myself if I really want to align myself as closely as possible with truth is "What is motivating my choice of beliefs?"

Is it the fact that every cell of my body is saturated, by way of natural selection, with the desire to survive indefinitely at all costs, or do I have some scientifically verified evidence to fuel my belief?

If I want to be scientific about it, I have to control for all known biases, so I must disregard my known bias for survival. Then if I look about to see what other motivations there might be to believe a given hypothesis - as I might for any issue that didn't hold my survival in the balance - all I have to go on is what science has uncovered to date which supports the idea of the survival of some essence of the person after the death of their body.

To my knowledge, no such evidence has been scientifically verified.

I have zero reason to suspect it exists. And mountains of reasons to suspect it doesn't.

We still don't know. But...

Skado's Wager says... I'd rather find a way to be happy and productive without an artificial crutch (which may throw me in the ditch at the most inopportune moment) and be pleasantly surprised later, than to live a lie for the better part of a hundred years, and risk having it trip me up the whole time. Not to mention the incessant gnawing worry and uncertainty. Then oblivion.

In the final analysis there is no comfort greater than a full embrace of... whatever is.

When you're dead and gone, you're gone. I've read everyone's statement, and as it stands it just a belief, there is no empirical proof, just speculation.

This stored energy concept, kind of dovetails to physics in regards to energy moving versus being extinguished. That, IMO, does not relate to physical existence. When the body ceases to function then the summation of who we were expires. That's it. I wish it was not the case, but it is. I'm a archaeology fan and that question about after death has been a part of our species from the beginning. These ridiculous dogmas attempt to "explain" and profit off of this question.

A thiest may refuse to accept that, but it doesn't change facts. Statistically, I believe in intelligent life elsewhere. But I do not have facts on my side, so it's a belief. Conversely, I KNOW there is no god. The concept of god is just filler for things not understood and a control mechanism.

We are alone and the only thing we have is between our first and last breaths. Anything else is conjecture driven by ignorance and fear.

If it brings you comfort to speculate on such thing that is all well and good.
If you wish to believe that your cumulative experiences and knowledge will somehow be preserved after your physicality is exhausted, that is fine, I hope that too which is why I write and compose and try and produce something creative every day, to just hope that such knowledge and experience will save itself to me, seem rather lazy.
If you want to believe these things and that faith (make no mistake what you are talking about is Faith, not energy, not spirituality it IS old fashion religious FAITH) helps you cope with life, well fine but be cautious.
Because if you begin to fear, and you grow angry owing to that fear, when people try and put to you other opinions you have a problem, because you have once again become religious. A private and self aware religion, but religious none the less.
If you begin to persecute and hate because of other opinions, and even find yourself abandoning reason in favour of violence and or negativity you have become a crusader, and that is not a compliment, crusaders were and are dangerous people for whom reason has no meaning and facts are no longer truth.

So if you decide to continue on this path, instead of following that which brought you out of religion and the worship of none existent god(s) to its logical conclusion, BE VERY CAREFUL not to become the very thing you dismissed as a bad and negative part of your former life, not worth preserving.
Good luck.

Energy is the most miss-used term from science. It takes many forms including interaction with mass . But what happens to your energy when you die is the most important Q to you. I would say the simple answer was it fritters away adding to global warming (but not as much as when the body was alive). It will of course be partly involved in the decay process until the body is all dust. Then it blows around and it is conceivable that it will end up giving its tiny chemical energy to another living body along with other chemicals from the earth.
The energy present at death cannot be used to activate any of the electrical nerve signals and hormone initiators that were present in the living Human body. i.e no resurrections.

" the energy doesn't forget who or what it was" Prove it! Remember that to have memory you need a special recording natural device. [We call ours the brain].Insects would have very little memory .{cf Goldfish 15 seconds. }

" We're all energy moving towards more energy" True because we are all moving towards the ultimate of star [ our sun] explosions .

My daughter believes the foods is the God's. Nobody really knows what happens in the 99% unknowns spiritual world and human kind has not the capacity to know, especially from the distraction of this like matrix system we live in. I'm impressed with your imagination to explore the possibility of energy. It's healthy to use your curiosity too. It's like reaching for the stars and coming back down to earth with something like learning more than did before and to enjoy anyway. .

An "intuitive interpretation of experience" is not dissimilar to belief in other supernatural considerations that are devoid of evidential support.

I really see no point in pondering any of that, since we have no power to prevent our dying eventually. It will happen and then I will be gone. The end... No point obsessing over or analyzing it into dust..

As Ram Dass once wrote, 'No matter the road I take, I'm going home.'

Decades ago, a friend died, and was brought back; and, his personality, memories, capacity for learning, thought processes and concept of self were significantly different.

When I die the self that I am, and my memories (as I've shared them), will be partially conserved in the memories of others who knew me (refected differently from their own perspectives). And, my authored memoirs, videoes, & documented chronologies of events (with references to evidence in annexures), will reflect the essence of my self. But, I will not have capacity for new experiences & thoughts & learning; so, I won't exist.

The essential function of a body, no longer intakes & converts fuel to energy. It is released as a final expiration, evacuation, & release of heat. That's it. As is the consciousness of self, and electrical energy of thought, disengaged & not recharged.

Philosophical discussions include epistemological and ontological considerations of the "facts and evidence".

"So when the human body dies what is this energy and what happens to it? "

Just because you "believe it" doesn't make it true. Just like religion.
There is no extra energy. You die. You are dead. The end.

I have read that scientists measuring the weight of a human body (before and after death) can't account for a small amount of weight. My theory is that we are an electron, bound magnetically to other electrons, so my attempts to 'splain death starts with that. When our electron (soul) changes polarity it disconnects from the bonding and we call that death. Therefore, I'd have to say that the missing weight is the electron (which returns to Tao). I also think that quantum physics will demonstrate this, one day, so it's scientific. My theory states that all, except the electron, is an illusion (this includes our body) so it ends when we "die." Our body remains in the vibration still created by other electrons bound together (which attempt to make sense of particle data, like our body).

You are doing a great job of explaining, theory formation and hypothesis generation. You are in the right place to do that because we all do not know something. However anything spiritual has one great concept buried inside it " UNKNOWN OR UNKNOWABLE. Its first use was for things that go bump in the night.

What happens to my energy after cremation?