“When the body is no longer able to continue to function in the natural world, a person is said to die. Yet they do not die, but are only separated from the body which was of use to them in the world. The person still lives; for a person is not human by virtue of the body, but by virtue of the spirit. It is the spirit which thinks in a person, and thought united with affections is what makes someone human.”
Emanuel Swedenborg, Heaven and Hell