No soul and you return to the cosmos for another run at eternity.

What happens after death? Life goes on but without you, you just cease to exist, thankfully I might add, I wouldn't want to be cursed with eternal life.

As for the soul, I think there's no such thing.

People speak of breaking the spirit of a horse in order to tame it. This implies a soul for the horse. I go with the adage that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A hand by itself can't do anything. If there is such a thing as a 'soul' it would have to be part of the whole. That being said, a wheel from a car can't do the same thing as the car itself. Why does a soul have to exist? I have no memories prior to my birth and no expectations of memories after my death.

This is more profound than religion or any set of beliefs. We are self aware because of that something that religion attributes to the soul and science keeps trying to attribute to something it can't put the finger on just yet. What does make inanimate matter (all our atoms) become not just alive but self aware with it's own thoughts and feelings? That's a big question and it seems all that goes away the very same minute life leaves the body. What happens, where does it go? We will know the day Houdini comes back, as he promise he would. So far, it seems that he did miscalculate the task just a little bit.

Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. When you're gone, you're gone; except perhaps not from the minds of those who loved you. That's about as "permanent" or about as much "soul" as it gets. Of course this is all speculative opinion, but nobody has come back and contradicted it that I know of.

I don't have to define "soul" because it's not a term I use. If someone else wants to use it, let them try to define it.
That'll be fun.

If there is a realm of existence beyond bodily death, it would be a purely natural production and not the result of some supernatural deity. There are some who accept the theory of evolution while at the same time believing in the existence of a soul that continues in the afterlife. To these ‘troubled souls’ I would ask, when in our evolutionary development did this condition arise? Did early hominids have souls? Is Lucy’s still out there, having roamed the African plain for the past 3 million years? Were there early crude, undeveloped or vestigial souls that, like George Carlin’s ‘Frisbeetarians’ whose souls get stuck on the roof, didn’t quite make it to immortality? What about other animals? The entire soul idea can be a huge time waster—a distraction from what should be our primary focus: the present, and this one life we have.

I don't know what the soul is, except for when used to describe someone who "has no soul."

In that case, I feel it's just an expression that makes a clear point.

I do find it interesting when I tell people I don't believe we have souls, and they insist we do.

That's when I might say, "Oh, trust me, I have no soul."

This is to ensure they stay far away from me.