Perhaps it’s a bit delusive, but I wonder if our bodies are merely the Lilliputian piece that we use, much like a keyboard, to interact with other energetic beings, whether the visibly animate form, or sensed. We’re great at detecting things with our eyes. The rest of the ‘sensing’ part, not so much.

Let me say a bit more - the traditional medicine in India, particularly Ayurvedic medicine holds that Prana is the animating force that both creates and animates the body. Energy precedes matter. Give that a minute…

So when our bodies come and go, what becomes of our energies? Physics 2nd law of Thermodynamics says it best. Energy does not disappear, but it becomes distributed. (In the end, the entropy of the universe will all be uniformly distributed).

So yes, he is still here.

Or perhaps, form Kahil Gibran -

When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance"