This paper extensively looks for the classical answer to the question is there life after death.
This paper states that a logically more rigorous approach would be to ask “Who Dies” when Death occurs. The author looks for answers from psychology, religion especially the Prophets, and extensively from philosophy. The paper points out that although we may never know the answers to these questions, there is no question that people’s fear of death only adds to their suffering with a multitude of effects.
What does the observed dependence of mind upon matter prove if not the mortality of the soul? Wait. First, just what do we observe? We observe the physical manifestations of consciousness (e.g. speech) cease when the body dies. We do not observe the spirit cease to exist, because we do not observe the spirit at all, only its manifestations in the body. Observations of the body do not decide whether that body is an instrument of an independent spirit, which continues to exist after its body-instrument dies, or whether the body is the cause of a dependent spirit, which dies, when its cause dies. Both hypotheses account for the observed facts.