Personal theory of death
I think death might be a kind of ever-lasting hallucination, where the body shuts down but death itself does not truly exist.
Some hallucinations work like dreams. When you think about one specific thing a lot, you are very likely to dream about it. While hallucinating, you are often unconscious, and in those moments, you usually believe everything is real. You think you are still where you were last, things continue to happen, and sometimes you see disturbing images.
But what is death might simply be the moment when the body becomes so exhausted (by old age, sickness, etc.) that it goes into a shutdown? We call this death, but what if it’s actually just a form of rest? We have never really been able to keep a body intact or in good condition for a long period of time.
There are many people who have returned after being clinically death for a few minutes, even though many say you cannot return from actual death. A lot of these people believe in something after death, and humans have always wondered what the afterlife might be like. Many of these people have claimed to see things, things they always believed would be the afterlife. This made me think about the dream-hallucination thing I explained.
It also made me think about hallucinating again: the deeper a person is in it, the harder it is to get out even with the help of someone else. Some people might be able to handle it more easily and return, like those who have been clinically dead. But for others, it may be much harder to escape a hallucination, even with help.