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[–] facepaint 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

Props for answering OP's question honestly. But here is my 2 cents on this statement:

But by ceasing the living, the energy was not destroyed, the matter left behind.

They have yet to explain where this ethereal portion goes.

When people die, the energy doesn't disappear either. The electrical impulses that drive communication along our neurons and through our brains comes from chemical energy that stops being converted into electrical impulses. The heat energy is simply radiated away.

In a way it is like assuming the spirit of the computer mysteriously goes somewhere else when you turn the power off. Without the base energy being produced to animate your computer, it's higher functions are what you see disappear.