Sorry, Skipy, not so. Nothing ever ends. It just changes. Ice becomes water becomes vapour becomes rain becomes water becomes ice. Nothing religious or etheral about it. Just simple physics. You die. You are burned. Bits go in the atmosphere. What happens to them? You die. You are buried. You feed the soil. Grass grows on your grave. Birds eat the seeds. It's quite simple realy. All the energy that is around always has been there and always will be. Just in a different form.

Surely we are not so vain to think we are the only sentient form of energy are we?

Cheers

DtG