And that energy is described in Chinese medicine as chi, so your chi moves somewhere else. Reincarnation much? Although if the chi is changed, then you could become light or fire or electricity. Maybe even gravity! A huge bolt of lightning would be awesome, though. Perhaps reincarnation happens when lightning strikes. Maybe your energy's just transferred down the food chain, thus you're never whole, and never alive again. Yeah, when you die you die.
One thing I don't get is why I'm here, in this body, as this person at this exact time, when I could be another person at any time whatsoever. Why am I only one person? What made me be inside this body? Surely when I die, I'm put into another body or something. Not my person or spirit. But another person that is declared as myself.
So I am me. Another person is another person. Suddenly another person is a me, ie viewing things from a first person perspective, and not being simply interacted with by others. Actually a better way to put it would be this: Everyone but me is people, and I am a person. Being a "person", I view the world through in first person. People are simply the ones you see. Then when you die, another person is born. Your spirit/mind/energy don't go into it, but your "vision" does. So it's a completely different person, but viewing things in first person like you did before you died. It's really hard to explain, but it has to happen. I mean, when you die, it's not like it all goes blank and there's not gonna be any more persons. I mean, 4+ billion years and no-one ever had a first person perspective? Why would I just suddenly come in now? I also believe this can extend to any life-form.
However I fear this simply comes around by reproduction, which is most likely true. So I just die, never to see again, as it were. We have to die, otherwise you wouldn't naturally fear death. Of course, when you have a child, you don't become one of the people and your baby the person, so perhaps it's the energy from animals eaten that forms the person inside that child. So while after you die your energy is never fully restored, it combines with other fractions of organisms' energy to become one. It's a shame Buddha can't tell us how to be enlightened and realise everything all at once, then we'd know.