Quote Originally Posted by Synfall View Post
I don't think it is that simple. With the death of the body, the energy that compelled the body still exists. Maybe there is no longer a conscious awareness of the energy, as there was when there was a form, but as energy can neither be created or destroyed your energy would still technically exist in the universe even after death.
It is arguable that the continued existence of your energy is an afterlife in and of itself even if it would be to your consciousness as an "endless void".
jmho
Okay, I find this a bit cloying.

The energy you are talking about was as subject to the first law of thermodynamics before you existed as it will be after. So, the 'afterlife' you describe here will be identical to your 'beforelife' and we can conclude that you have always existed.

But, when people speak of immortality in this way, they only do it from the point of birth on. There is this assumption of non-existence before birth which is inconsistent with the argument of continued existence after death.

See what I mean.

There was a sort of absense of me before I was born. Whatever you want to call that, that is the state I will be in after I die.