Erm
the bit about the atoms being recycled - that's true....we live in a finite world - all the atoms that exist now have always existed but not necessarily in the same composition.

I'm sure I'm not explaining this very well...but I thought that it wasn't possible to create matter out of nothing - therefore when we die we simply change state - well our bodies do...being carbon based as we are. As far as our minds or our thoughts are concerned...god knows where they go to.

*Awaits bigger brains to point out where this argument is entirely wrong.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 3 Mar 2008, 15:16, Reply)