The Body Is Part of How the Self Is Built
Ordinary language makes the body sound like a possession: my hand, my face, my body. The grammar suggests an owner standing somehow apart from the thing owned. Experience is less simple.
Body ownership, self-location, and first-person perspective are shaped through visual, tactile, balance, position, and internal bodily signals. Interoception—the sensing of internal bodily states—also contributes to the experience of having a body.
This does not settle whether a soul exists or what, if anything, survives death. It does show how deeply the body is involved in the ordinary experience of being a self located somewhere in the world.
That makes 'I have a body' only one useful description. Another is that our sense of 'I' is continuously shaped through bodily information. Illness, fatigue, pain, movement, balance, breathing, heartbeat, touch, and spatial orientation can all alter how experience is organized.
The body is neither a mere machine carrying a separate observer nor the whole philosophical answer to what a person is. It is part of how a person experiences being here.
The question becomes more interesting when possession gives way to embodiment. Not only: What do I think about my body? Also: How is my experience of being me being built through it?