What happens when you die?

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So after having read this thread, I want to ask some people about something I mentioned before. The law of thermodynamics states that energy can be turned into different forms, but it can't be created or destroyed. Most people's experiences or beliefs that I have read here indicate that that is true, that the energy of people has taken different forms after they died. Especially all the "spooky" stories.
But no one here has made the same connection that these sort of occurences relate to some laws of physics as we know them to occur on Earth and in our universe. Just that simple law of the nature of energy.
Why is that?

Also, for the more religiously inclined, I know it is a matter of faith, but have you also considered this law of energy? And in that sense, do you believe that this energy (the soul, if you will) does not remain on Earth but goes instead to heaven or hell, the locations of which we really don't know? Do you believe heaven and hell are in our universe? Do you believe they are parallel states sort of "right here" on Earth?
It seems to me that concept of religion, though it has been clouded in myth and story, in its' essence is basically the same as believing that the law of thermodynamics is true, all energy continues to exist in a different form, the difference being that the religious person believes that that energy goes to specific places.

Anyone? Anyone? You know I like to mix science with my airy fairy. In this case, science seems to support the airy fairy that people have been observing and experiencing for millenia. I mean, it kind of seems "obvious" to me when you consider that energy can't be created or destroyed that people's energetic essence is all around here somewhere. And from anecdotal evidence, it seems that the energy is often reincarnated, or at least moves into other things and beings, or lights, anything with an energy field.