What Happens When You Die?

What a pity you didn't continue the quote from Ecclesiastes to the bit that says that, at physical death, "the spirit returns to God who gave it." That is why young people are urged to remember their Creator in the days of their youth, before old age and death afflict them, for then they will have to account to God for how they lived in the body. That's all in chapter 12 - "The conclusion of the matter".

It's never a good idea to present as a conclusion just one point used in the process of arriving at it. The writer of Ecclesiastes knew that physical death was not the end of everything!

The Hebrew words he used regarding death had two meanings and you have only used the one that speaks of the grave as the entrance to sheol. But in the ancient Hebrew mind, sheol had two compartments - one was called 'the bosom of Abraham' while the other was a place of woe. Both compartments were for the departed spirits of the dead, who had to wait in either one or the other, until the day of the resurrection. Check out what the Hebrew word 'qe'ver' means. Source below which you should be able to access.

Jesus took that belief (promoted by the rabbinic schools of Shammai and Hillel) to warn of what happened to a rich man who died and found himself in that chamber of torment. Read Luke 16:19 to the end in light of what the Jews back then believed. He agreed with every aspect of that belief!

By the way, you are not supposed to ask a question just in order to give your own answer to it.

When you're dead, you're done. ...exactly like every other living organism. The trouble is that the ancients used the term "spirit" to explain away what they could not otherwise understand -- that their own living brain was the actual source of their conscious awareness.

You are correct, though. Death is not the end of everything. Objective physical reality began at the moment of the Big Bang and will continue for eons, until long after the Earth is destroyed and humanity becomes extinct.

It's true the body dies and can't think anymore, but the Bible speaks of the spirit. Jesus said, 'Father into your hands I entrust my spirit.' And when Jesus resurrected a girl, the Bible says, 'Her spirit returned to her.' And in 1 Peter 3:19,20 it speaks of the spirits in prison whom Jesus preached to who were disobedient in the days of Noah. And Revelation speaks about the souls under the alter asking how long before they are avenged. So when we die, generally, Christians and children go to the paradise of God in heaven and the unbelievers go to spirit prison. Later there is the resurrection and final judgment.

NO ONE HAS EVER DIED, WE ARE SPIRIT ONLY LIVING IN FLESH.

A spirit can not die, as flesh dies.

You think of yourself as HUMAN, you are not human, your avatar is human, the WORM within is spirit. The spirit is known as "man", the flesh is known as the sons of man. Man is Adam, Adam is a spirit, the flesh that Adam became joined with was a FEMALE.

I shall go to Allah subhanahu otala