What will you do after you're dead?

[Qwark]

DroidKnight said:

Qwark said:

My body and brain use food )and water) as fuell to do things since I am not eating while I am dead and my body isn´t processing food and that energy is simply stored within me for bacteria to feast on. So that they may live, move and do stuff. So my answer is the energy my body and brain contains simply stays within me. If you would nurn me my energetic potential would still be pretty high.

As soon as you die your brain and body ceases to process food and water (fuel), the powerplant then powers down, you are not a battery that stores the energy to charge other devices.  The brain sends electrical impulses to the body through neurons firing and this ceases through the death process.  You seem to be talking about the nutrients contained within our skin, muscles, tissue, bone, and fluids that bacteria, microbes, mites, bugs, worms, and the symbionic organisms that exist on and outside of us and within us that will continue to feed upon us.  The nutrients and sustenance will be transferred to these other organisms but what about all that energy that we consist of that turns off at death?  Our conscience?  What some may call the soul?  It's there...science says it's there (even though it still isn't fully understood).  Religion does not grant us the ability to reason or have cognitive thought, so I'm not trying to introduce it other than the soul comment (but was only using it to describe what I'm talking about by the only name that this energy or force has been given).  I would appreciate it if you could elaborate on your take a little further.

https://www.google.nl/amp/io9.com/5877531/how-exactly-do-neurons-pass-signals-through-your-nervous-system/amp

 

It's a bit if a long article but from t I understand of it (I am not especially great in biology) is that nerve cells send electrical pulses using sodium a negative ion and calcium a positive ion to create an electrical signal/stream because the electrons travel from on end to the other if stimulated and is other wise in a stable condition. In a way a nerve acts a bit like semiconductor.

But the most important thing is the electrical energy is chemically generated so when you die those currents stop because the state of nerves doesn't change anymore and no signal is send anymore. When you die these chemicals are still within you with the same potential thus the energy is not lost. It is simply locked like a nerve cell which isn't triggered.