If I lose my soul, do I die?

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Let's say my soul somehow gets destroyed or removed. What happens to my body?

Does it die, or carry on living? If it's the latter, what changes would/could be observed?

For fellow sceptics, how do you think most believers would respond?

I would guess most theists would say that the soul is actually the living part of you, and that its loss would be physical death.

Lets see though, interesting question.

I've been thinking about it, and people tend to think animals don't have souls but can still live. So I wonder if they'd say we'd survive. But that means the soul isn't required in the first place, so it presumably does some extra functions which would be lost.

I came up with some ideas about what people might say, if they think you still live, and then my concerns about them.

1) Loss of conscience - Some people already don't have one, do they not have souls?
2) Loss of free will - How would this manifest? How would we tell the difference?
3) Become just an animal - We already are animals, what would change?

Yes, I'm interested to see if we'll get any answers.