Exactly Vipros
The fact that you decompose and rot into the soil is, well, a fact. Don't believe me? Go and kill someone (or an animal if you don't fancy life in prison, or can't think of anyone you dislike enough), bury them in your garden, and dig them up at regular intervals. You will observe this for yourself. This can certainly be proved empirically in this fashion; it's far from 'an article of faith'.

The debate about whether anything additional happens to your 'soul' (as V said, for want of a better word), is additional to this. Personally I believe the laws of thermodynamics seem to preclude anything further happening, but I won't bore you with my typical rant on said subject.
(username1, Tue 21 Apr 2009, 11:01, Reply)