To live here is what we are calling soulful living. As scientifically proved and scripted in Vedas as well, our body is made up of 5 elements including air, water, fire, earth, space and after physical death, the body starts decomposing itself no matter we are buried or cremated or by any other means. So the elements of the body go back to where they came from. So where does actually the life and death comes in..? To know the answer to this we need to know what life is or to be more precise what is a soulful living?
Living in present with no interference of the mind is the real living and death is when we hang on to the past or are sticking to the thoughts of future. Past includes all the attachments, memories and knowing that we have come through and the future includes the preparation for a goal, worries for some uncertainty and so on. So whenever we are(our mind) is inclined towards past or future we are not existing that is we die for the present.
The utmost truth is to be present in the present as the power that governs us all exists only in the present. Being in the present we feel the actual meaning of life, which is most of the time covered with the dust from our thoughts of past and future. Once the dust has been removed we are able to see through it and find the truth, uniting which we are living and the more we live. We free ourselves from all the sufferings of the soul and finally imbued with the universal power, almighty.