I was thinking that every living thing decomposes when they die. But dose that mean you still live? So if someone dies, they can decompose into a plant, or fungi or a new living thing. Now the water part. Humans are solids, but we are made up about 90% water. Now when we die and all there is left is bones then what happends to the water in us? evaporation. So we could still may live when the human body dies. I think of death as just being broken down into differnt natural things. If we did not live after Our organs, and/or brain expires then there would be a lot of people in the ground. Pople have been dieing for millions of years and there is no such thing as Unlimited Space on the planet earth.
if this is true, then your body is made of many other people and animals. are you still you? or are you also these other people? grow the cheeba ride the zebra
i never said we decompose and turn into other people that would be impossible. But im saying we can decompose into natural resources such as fungi, water and plants, im not to sure on decomposing and turning into animals.
following your original line of thought, if our physical substance decomposes and is eaten/absorbed into animals and plants, then we become part of those things. the reason there's not unlimited space is because the atoms that make our bodies are constantly being consumed by others. to answer your original question, no, we don't 'live' after we decompose. *edit-wtf
when we decompose are body turns into something different that is living. Are brains turn off and our bodies make up living things (plants, and fungi) and the 90% of the water in us either evaporates or just disolves in what ever we are decomposing on. What ever we decompose and turn into is still Us but in different form and no brain.
but my point is this: the 'we' that you are referring to is actually other things that we have absorbed. it's not really you dude. it never was.
After death we become fungi..?!? It's no you, it's a death crap of you in decomposition. Don't go over-analyse everything. Yeah in a way your piece of crap will bring life to some livin' things... But would a dead mushroom turn into a human?!? Never heard of it... not yet.
I wouldn't say we "live" after we die and are buried/cremated, but we certainly still exist as particles of carbon etc. I'm not sure, but I don't think matter can be completely destroyed (where it becomes "nothing"). I've read that we each contain the absolute tiniest particles of stars and cosmic matter, forged when the universe exploded in the crucible of the big bang. Kind of beautiful... But also consider this: if all matter is made up of atoms, sub atoms, and x (where x is the unknown that makes up the tiniest elements of matter), there is essentially no difference in make-up between you and a plant, you and a chair, or you and the earth's core. There is only a difference in form.
nature recycles 100%. but of course that's talking about material substance and (mostly) chemical transfer of energy. awaireness/soul/spirit is something that is such a completely other kind of thing entirely that there's no reason i can see, to expect of it anything resembling form or substance, nor the behaviours of form and substance. =^^= .../\...
Your spirit is not of this world. It is immune to the natural laws that control things here. No so for the body. Your spirit wears a body like you wear clothes. When it wears out, it is cast aside, and provides food for billions of little organisms. So even in physical death, the energy contained within your flesh will continue life elsewhere. x
