old thread I know, but i seemed to have missed it when it first came around =)

just from what you said, (and i'm sorry if it sounds like i'm making an assumption/putting words in your mouth, but it makes it easier to explain what im trying to say)..
sounds like you don't separate our 'energy' from our physical bodies. If you separate them then even if you are burried, your energy still might not be returned to the earth, it can go anywhere (and that might make you feel more comfortable that other people then won't see your grave as the only place 'you' are).
I want to be cremated. that firstly stemmed from my claustophobia and my insane fear of being burried alive, but I have since worked out some plans I want done with my remains, and cremation is the only way to make them possible. (dont really want to say on here publicy). but it involves giving my physical self back to the universe as a thankyou for letting me use this body and the resorces of the earth etc..

my 'energy' will remain, and possibly get another body to 'rent' (such a bad way to describe it), maybe not. but it won't disapear. because one of the laws of physics is that energy can not be destoryed or created, only displaced. so my energy won't be the exact same as it is now, but will still be around... did that make any sense??


just want to add, that i don't believe in God as such. I o believe in a larger/stronger energy, that for us the easiest way for us to understand it is to personify it, but for me it everythign and nothing at the same time, eg.. it is both male and female, black and white, heavy and light etc.. and is constantly changing, with all the smaller energies (that being us humans/other forms of life), joining it, and leaving it etc..