On Death: Death can't be the end...

...because something happens after "death." Either our soul and/or consciousness is set free into the universe, thus continuing the life cycle, or we "die" with our body. If so, our body takes time to decay. Therefore, the body doesn't just die so much as decays progressively over time. It is nonsensical to think that there is a finger snap moment of death. The only death we tend to think about is the moment that a person's heart stops beating for a long enough period that it can't be restarted. Such a time is always called "gone" as in "he's gone," meaning the ability to communicate in a personable way is finished. However, coma patients cannot communicate in a personable way but they're not dead. Death is defined as an ending. As far as people (and possibly other living organisms) go, "death" is truly just a product of change. It can be one of freedom or decay but it's still change. As change is something that happens, a changing situation cannot be a dead one. Therefore, if we change as we "die," we are not truly dead. We change and are constantly changing. The universe creates and changes. As part of that universe, we change along with it.