To those who don't believe in a soul I guess you have never experienced death?

I was with my Dad when he died, and I felt his last breath and then his soul go right through me! It felt just exactly like getting electrocuted, it took my breath away! I knew then from that day forward that we are with souls! Paranormal studies have proved this over and over in houses occupied still by the dead spirits. In the childrens cancer ward at John Hopkins University Hospital a book was written about the dying experience of kids, and the things they described but had never been privvy to before, research has even been conducted on the matter and even SCIENCTISTS have said the body is energy, and energy just changes form. There are good research papers on NDE (near death experiences)

http://www.lauralee.com/news/soulproof.h...

Book written by an agnostic part of the excerpt:

These days, the research has gone well beyond mediums at seances making tables go thump in the dark. She cites the First Law of Thermodynamics -- "energy is neither created nor destroyed" -- as a sort-of, kind-of proof that what we call our consciousness does not disappear at death. The question isn't "is it still there," a physicist tells her. It's "where does it go?"

After all the exploration, Roach emerges as cautiously encouraged by some studies into near-death experiences at the University of Virginia, where patients are clinically, but temporarily, dead, and report themselves floating above their bodies. Such anecdotes, which comprise the most common near-death experience, have been around for years, and the UVA scientists are trying to test them.

Some of those studies led the highly skeptical Roach to believe more than she did when she started.

"Some of the studies of the near-death experiences left me leaning toward acceptance of a something after life," she says.

Actually I have experienced death. I was at my dad's side when he drew his last breath. Nothing happened. My dad is now sleeping in death, awaiting the resurrection as Christ promised. What you felt was you're own body reacting to what you'd just witnessed, nothing more, nothing less. Seeing another human die, especially one we love can have many powerful effects on us, physical and psychological.

NDE is nothing more than a release of chemicals, power of suggestion, whatever you want to call it.

There are no houses 'occupied by dead spirits'. There are no ghosts. The dead are dead.

Gen. 2:7: 鈥淛ehovah God proceeded to form the man out of dust from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man came to be a living soul.鈥?(Notice that this does not say that man was given a soul but that he became a soul, a living person.) (The part of the Hebrew word here rendered 鈥渟oul鈥?is ne麓phesh. KJ, AS, and Dy agree with that rendering. RS, JB, NAB read 鈥渂eing.鈥?NE says 鈥渃reature.鈥?Kx reads 鈥減erson.鈥?

1 Cor. 15:45: 鈥淚t is even so written: 鈥楾he first man Adam became a living soul.鈥?The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.鈥?(So the Christian Greek Scriptures agree with the Hebrew Scriptures as to what the soul is.) (The Greek word here translated 鈥渟oul鈥?is the accusative case of psy路khe麓. KJ, AS, Dy, JB, NAB, and Kx also read 鈥渟oul.鈥?RS, NE, and TEV say 鈥渂eing.鈥?

1 Pet. 3:20: 鈥淚n Noah鈥檚 days . . . a few people, that is, eight souls, were carried safely through the water.鈥?(The Greek word here translated 鈥渟ouls鈥?is psy路khai麓, the plural form of psy路khe麓. KJ, AS, Dy, and Kx also read 鈥渟ouls.鈥?JB and TEV say 鈥減eople鈥? RS, NE, and NAB use 鈥減ersons.鈥?

Gen. 9:5: 鈥淏esides that, your blood of your souls [or, 鈥渓ives鈥? Hebrew, from ne麓phesh] shall I ask back.鈥?(Here the soul is said to have blood.)

Josh. 11:11: 鈥淭hey went striking every soul [Hebrew, ne麓phesh] that was in it with the edge of the sword.鈥?(The soul is here shown to be something that can be touched by the sword, so these souls could not have been spirits.)

Where are they dead?What are they doing? Well, lets see...
Eccl. 9:5: 鈥淭he living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all.鈥?br>
Ps. 146:4: 鈥淗is spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts [鈥渢houghts,鈥?KJ, 145:4 in Dy; 鈥渁ll his thinking,鈥?NE; 鈥減lans,鈥?RS, NAB] do perish.鈥?br>
John 11:11-14: 鈥溾€楲azarus our friend has gone to rest, but I am journeying there to awaken him from sleep.鈥?. . . Jesus said to them outspokenly: 鈥楲azarus has died.鈥欌€?(Also Psalm 13:3)

Ezek. 18:4: 鈥淭he soul [鈥渟oul,鈥?RS, NE, KJ, Dy, Kx; 鈥渕an,鈥?JB; 鈥減erson,鈥?TEV] that is sinning鈥攊t itself will die.鈥?br>
Isa. 53:12: 鈥淗e poured out his soul [鈥渟oul,鈥?RS, KJ, Dy; 鈥渓ife,鈥?TEV; 鈥渉imself,鈥?JB, Kx, NAB] to the very death.鈥?(Compare Matthew 26:38.)

Guess what, people is in a rather unstable state when they are near a dying friend, so no, I don麓t take too much in count your testimony.

However it should be noted that not every atheist don麓t believe in an afterlife.

When my grandfather died I slept in the same spot he died and I felt him there. So I believe we have some sort of soul but I don't believe in heaven nor hell.