My take on Heaven n ****
Personally I think everyone just dies, and decomposes, on several planes...but, I'll give it to you in a more extended version:
What is heaven? Perfect happiness, is it not? And what is happiness? Just like how there is no darkness, there is only lack of light, how there is no cold, only lack of heat, happiness is the lack of desires. But no matter what, we have desires. And what makes us happy, therefore, is to fulfill these desires. We are born with desires, to eat, sleep, be comforted. We progress through life gaining more, new car, love, house, good life, etc. We have desires to our dying day. And so, the point, emerges. What happens when we die? However you want to say it the desires are-- fulfilled, destroyed, eliminated. I believe there is a certain point that one achieves perfect happiness, or nirvanna, prior to death, or perhaps a few moments after death, before finally going black.
I have my own ideas about the spirit, but I don't really wan to get into that now.