What comes next after death is just recycling of matter and energy, as directed by science. Period!

Krishna: 

‘‘Science’s ‘insights’ should always accompany solid evidence’’.

Like I wrote in my articles, the evidence based science made this clear:

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We all came from star dust and energy (1). And go to it again. In never ending cycles, each atom of our bodies goes to other forms, including the living ones both while we are still living and after our deaths. Atoms from other bodies come to us. There will be atoms that have been inside a living cell that started 3.5 billion years ago on our planet and are still in living cells today. Matter will be turned into energy and energy into mass. We belong to everything and everything belongs to us! A group of cells composed of atoms and energy in our brains makes us conscious with their work. That is you, me and others around.

We all belong to one universe. We were born here as a result of coming together of a few atoms and some energy and the resultant consciousness. In the end we will return to the place where we came from. The bits and energy our bodies are made of will be returned to the universe for the recycling process to continue.

After our deaths and destruction we too return back to the universe as individual atoms and energy, to the one body that recycles them and we all belong to whether we lived with our conscious bodies or existed as inanimate forms. (1)

Nothing belongs to you and everything belongs to this universe, even the atoms and energy in a living body, and they are recycled and circulated over and over again, you will also realize that these atoms and energy what you think 'your body' is, belonged to something or somebody else earlier, then they came to you in the process of recycling and then after your death and also during your life time might get transferred to other things and living beings. Then what is yours? Nothing! Everything belongs to the universe, everything and everybody! The words, I, me and something or somebody else becoming meaning less. That is what science tells us. (2)

Atoms and molecules in your body now too have many 'past' forms and lives, and will have 'future' forms and lives - the atoms and energy in my body taking different forms both living and non-living- that is, one birth- one form, second change from partial part of my body - with some atoms of 'my' body-another form, third change - separate entity ,… a hundred births, … a hundred thousand forms, I see my matter and that of other beings in particular body forms too passing away and reappearing, inferior and superior, fair and unfair, fortunate and unfortunate, and I understand how living beings change their lives, shapes, forms in an eternal recycling drama.

This is not reincarnation, mind it, just re-cycling! (2) And science directs this eternal show!

The atoms and molecules in your body came from other forms and then go to other forms after your death. This is a never ending cycle. You can never exist in this form again. The atoms in your body can never be in the same body and same form like it is now. It will never have the same consciousness. So there will never be ‘another you’.

You exist only once. The consciousness that tells you who you are now came into existence because the atoms, molecules in your body that formed a particular matter called neural mass in your brain and work only in a particular way. Without interaction between specific-chemical-interaction-structured-neurons and their interactions with one another in a special way, there won't be any consciousness. Although nerve cells exist throughout the body, only the specific collective interactions of neurons with the help of other neurons in the body in a brain causes consciousness.

The way these atoms and molecules of neurons in your brain came together, the way the neurons formed circuits, the way they interact now is unique to you only now. They were never the same earlier when they were in other forms and they can never be the same again. Because no matter how many times they try to be a part of living matter ( for that matter non-living matter too), and in how many bodies they interact with, they can never be in the same combinations and actions or interactions.

‘You’ just have one birth. “You” just live only once. After your death the atoms and molecules in your body form part of other living and non-living entities, but never in the same way, and therefore, can never be the same ‘you’.

Just because you were born once doesn’t mean you will be born again. Just because you have one form now with a particular consciousness doesn’t mean you will have the same one again and again.

There won’t be another ‘you’ again. If some people say there will be, it is just ‘imagination without solid evidence’ to get some sort of mental comfort to overcome the discomfort the thought of death brings.

What comes next after death is just recycling of matter and energy, as directed by science. Period!

Footnotes:

1. Science tries to strengthen our minds permanently by making us real...

2. Science and Spirituality