Musar su Deuteronomio 32:41

לא תשא שמע שוא. A judge must not listen to the arguments of one litigant when his opposite number is absent. Rabbi Menachem Habavli writes that we may view the body and the soul as two litigants before the judge, i.e. G–d. As long as they both approach G–d simultaneously, G–d judges them. If, however, the body has already died, become decomposed, etc., the sinner, i.e the soul, remains a litigant who cannot be dealt with since his partner in crime is missing. This is why the Torah has to say elsewhere וכפר אדמתו עמו, (Deut 32,41) that the red looking body i.e. אדמדם (while full of blood) is the other litigant. If it has departed there is nothing else for the soul to do but return to its origin, the place below G–d's throne.