Point well taken. However, if I burn a dandelion into ash, it's dead ash. And if I scatter the ash it's even less what it was than before. If our 'soul' cannot be destroyed in the same sense that matter and energy cannot be destroyed, only converted, what would our soul be converted to, would it be conscious matter or the same as the ash from a burned dandelion? I've considered that our 'souls' in this sense are effectively batteries and the energy gets released into the world when someone passes away. But that's a lot different than conscious thoughts and sentience. I don't think what remains of us is sentient.