They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby.

Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.

But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter.

Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.

We're going to find out more about those sounds and what they mean...It's definitely a discharge process, a big spark that releases a lot of energy in a very short period of time.

The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.