It's all based on your religion.

In Buddhist terms (being a Buddhist) there is no soul as such. There is simply pure awareness, which is everything and nothing, and does not exist in time or space. Pure awareness, or pure consciousness, is all we are. The notion of a self, or a soul that live sin the self, is illusion. When we die, the pure awareness will be all that is left, and that is what will be "our" experience. In Pure Awareness there is no I , or self. Only a singularity / oneness that is eternal. All phenomena ,including our selves and our lives are ripples in the field of pure awareness, and everything around us are facets of this pure awareness. So the eternal pure consciousness that is our inherent nature will continue to be, however continue is a poor word, given its timeless nature. There are not adequate words to explain this pure awareness, only experiencing it can give us an idea of what it is. And as for death, the only thing that dies is our ego-created illusory sense of self, or in other words the idea of ourselves. Death ultimately is nothing more than the cessation of the illusion of a self, and ultimately death has no meaning, as in the pure awareness, nothing is born and nothing is destroyed. To help point further at this, try looking at the Buddhist Heart Sutra if you wish.

The suggested answers to that vary drastically from religion to religion, philosophy to philosophy... Because of the nature of the question (For it to be answered it is required that we first die and given the current lack of a solid answer it can be assumed that at the very least we can't return in any way to give the answer to the living) it is simply unanswerable. Everything relating to it is either speculation or Faith *shrugs* Personally I don't think we even have a 'spirit' in the sense the word is most commonly used, but even if we do it doesn't live on after we die; when we die we're dead ; ) Don't worry though, when it happens you'll be too dead to even notice, I promise ; ) hehe

The soul, according to many religious and philosophical traditions, is the self-aware essence unique to a particular living being. In these traditions the soul is thought to incorporate the inner essence of each living being, and to be the true basis for sapience. It is believed in many cultures and religions that the soul is the unification of one's sense of identity. Souls are usually (but not always as explained below) considered to be immortal and to exist before their incarnation in flesh. The concept of the soul has strong links with notions of an afterlife, but opinions may vary wildly, even within a given religion, as to what may happen to the soul after the death of the body. Many within these religions and philosophies see the soul as immaterial, while others consider it to possibly have a material component, and some have even tried to establish the mass (or weight) of the soul. The Ancient Greeks used the same word for 'alive' as for 'ensouled'. So the earliest surviving Western philosophical view might suggest that the terms soul and aliveness, were synonymous - perhaps not that having life, universally presupposed the possession of a soul as in Buddhism, but that full "aliveness" and the soul were conceptually linked. In Hinduism, the Sanskrit words most closely corresponding to soul are "Jiva", meaning the individual soul or personality, and "Atman", which can also mean soul or even God. The Atman is seen as the portion of Brahman within us. Hinduism contains many variant beliefs on the origin, purpose, and fate of the soul. For example, advaita or non-dualistic conception of the soul accords it union with Brahman, the absolute uncreated (roughly, the Godhead), in eventuality or in pre-existing fact. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul http://www.vedanta-newyork.org/articles/concept_of_soul_3.htm http://hinduwebsite.com/reincarnation.asp http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/DEATH.HTML

If there are people who know you left behind yes.

Only if we learn the correct spelling of the word "our".

If you're a Theist, then you're subject to a binarist interpretation of the afterlife. If you're a Buddhist, then I think your life energy goes back to the Earth or the like.

Ohhh I am gonna be soooooo ticked of if it does..when I go..I want to just go..be done..outta here..exit stage door left..etc etc :)

Mine will , I've got to watch over all of you here

Based purely on science and physics the spirit does live on. One of Isaac Newton's laws is the Conservation of Energy. This law is not something we have derived from basic physics principles. Rather, it is a law based on countless experiments. Scientists and engineers have never found an exception to it. This law states "the total energy of a system can change only by amounts of energy that are transferred to or from the system". Think of your body as a system of energy. When you die, where is the energy transfer? The kinetic energy (energy ranging from physical motion to intracellular activity i.e. heart beating) is transferred from your physical system to your spirit. Think of all the energy you have now; that energy does not disappear. It just changes form. The question is: what form does your spirit have? Answer: the form of your spirit is based on your relative amounts of both positive and negative energy.

Yes. I actually witnessed the sight of my father's spirit. And it was incredible!

our spirit goes somewhere. you have to have someplace in mind. somepeople dont go anywhere. they just stay where they lived. they dont have any place in mind.

It evaporates

No one who is alive knows for sure. It depends on your religion or lack of one. It also depends on what comforts you. This is what comforts me. I think when we die we go to heaven and keep doing what we are doing with our family and friends only there is no pain or sorrow or anger. That comforts me so that is what I choose to believe. You have to decide for yourself. Happy Tuesday! :)

Assuming the spirit actually exists, no one really knows. I could tell you what I believe. Any number of other people, religious or atheist can tell you what they believe. But that's all you'll be getting. Someone else's beliefs. Because NO one knows.

Your spirit results from the complete interaction of your mind, body and soul. The ancient Egyptians sort of believed the spirit could live on, which is part of the reason for the practice of mummification. But most modern schools of theistic thought draw a distinction between soul and spirit. The soul being that part of you with the potential to live on for eternity.

It goes up on the roof and you can't get it down.