Originally Posted by toretorden

Dark matter is a hypothesis used to explain why the universe doesn't seem to want to contract, leading to the assumption that there's some kind of matter where it doesn't seem like there is any. However, we're not a lack of matter and this being a hypothesis, I don't think it should have more weight than what we can scientifically prove.

When you die, you lose some of your energy to the environment causing you to get cold unless you're someplace very hot. All the energy tied up in chemicals in your body are consumed and utilized by bacterias and other organisms unless you get burned whereupon it's released as heat. This is something we know from a scientific viewpoint today I don't see any evidence of soul or a metaphysical afterlife in it. When you eat cow brain, some of that energy from the cow is now used to fuel your biological life processes. When a worm or a crow eats you, some of your energy will be used to fuel it's biological processes. Where's the soul in that? Matter and energy may be forever, but we're not.