Post by Leaf on Apr 11, 2024 3:20:52 GMT -5
What really happens after our minds die and our bodies decay?
The actual physical aspects of death and not the spiritual ones.
I know this depends on how a body is disposed of since some are cremated and others are buried. Though we tend to bury our dead in caskets so that is added material that likely decomposes over time due to it being made from wood usually.
Eventually our bodies decay down to our skeletons, but I'm pretty sure skeletons aren't permanent and eventually that matter breaks down over time as well. Then you have the chemical aspects of ourselves. We're carbon-based creatures and a lot of materials that comprise us are found out in the stars. Is it possible that the matter that make us up today will eventually be recycled back into the universe to be used for something else? Like perhaps the same materials that make us up right now will become a part of a new star being born 100 billion years into the future.
Or could this same material be recycled into another biological carbon-based lifeform? Like an animal or perhaps another person? This does sound like we're getting back into spirituality, but reincarnation still seems entirely different from this potential scientific reincarnation. Because that same matter isn't really you and it really isn't the conscience you. It was just what it was used for during the time when you were alive. So, if that same matter is recycled into another human person, it would just be an entirely different person. I suppose this is where spirituality comes in with discussions of a soul, but that can't be scientifically proven (nor disproven).
So, what is the actual scientific side of the dying process and the physical afterlife?
The actual physical aspects of death and not the spiritual ones.
I know this depends on how a body is disposed of since some are cremated and others are buried. Though we tend to bury our dead in caskets so that is added material that likely decomposes over time due to it being made from wood usually.
Eventually our bodies decay down to our skeletons, but I'm pretty sure skeletons aren't permanent and eventually that matter breaks down over time as well. Then you have the chemical aspects of ourselves. We're carbon-based creatures and a lot of materials that comprise us are found out in the stars. Is it possible that the matter that make us up today will eventually be recycled back into the universe to be used for something else? Like perhaps the same materials that make us up right now will become a part of a new star being born 100 billion years into the future.
Or could this same material be recycled into another biological carbon-based lifeform? Like an animal or perhaps another person? This does sound like we're getting back into spirituality, but reincarnation still seems entirely different from this potential scientific reincarnation. Because that same matter isn't really you and it really isn't the conscience you. It was just what it was used for during the time when you were alive. So, if that same matter is recycled into another human person, it would just be an entirely different person. I suppose this is where spirituality comes in with discussions of a soul, but that can't be scientifically proven (nor disproven).
So, what is the actual scientific side of the dying process and the physical afterlife?