I think it may be possible for awareness to continue after the body has gone
and you may be able to get a new body, this is just a thought so please everybody jump right in and let me know what you think.
If you were to construct a machine (computer of some kind) capable of holding a copy of the real time function of the elecrochemical construct of your mind an emulator if you will, and not copy your mind to it because if you die then the copy will think it is you but it will just be a copy, but what I propose is that it could be linked to your mind and single neorone fuction could be imprinted into the program one by one but run in parallel with the neorone that was copied, and then verified that they are in sinc then terminate the original organic brain function, one by one as they are copied off, but still the whole of your mind is intact partly in the sofware partly in the organics, this would mean that there was no sense of being copied which means one copy presumably the organic one need not percieve dieing, so you continue this process one function at a time while still feeling all there, one whole mind though pieces of the whole are crossing to a new medium, nothing lost untill the last remaining organic function is left, mirrored in parallel then terminated, your whole coniousness would now remain in the machine and your organics terminated but there was no perception of loss.
If you just made copy of someonse brain function then killed them they would die, and the copy would have to endure the fact that they were no original but just a memory of the dead one. This tranfer method would eliminate this perception because there is no duality to the process but one mind moving from one shell to another.
Now this is where it gets interesting, if your are now hard wires inside this machine they can build organic / mechanic interface, which can be inserted into your newly cloned body in place of a real organic brain, this will allow your newly migrated cyber presence to give orders to the body the way your brain used to and transmit organic impulses back to your place of imortality (server?) the net result being that your perceptions are of only existing inside your body, but your existance resides in the protected computer, now if your body gets killed, they just route your systems into a new brain interface tranmitter and plug you into a new body, for some day to day corporeal action, now if you get sick of this you can just spend time with all the other disembodied beings on the giant network, with any kind of artificial input you like, like a cyber heaven, only difference is you can hob nob with other virtuals or plug into a body to percieve real organic life, a bit like the Matrix and scarry, but you could "EXIST" like this unless they drop bombs on the computers