There is a certain anxiety connected with this. Thetans often say very interesting prayers at the moment they pick up a body. They dedicate themselves to its continued growing and to the family and go through all kinds of odd rituals, all because they are so happy to get a new body. But the odd part of it is, they don't shut their memory off until they pick another body up. The shut-off of memory actually occurs with the pickup of the new body.
Death is in itself a technical subject.
If you got there while that person could still communicate with you, in the last moments, you would find that the person usually has something spotted, something planned. The person doesn't just back out ordinarily and forget all about it. He backs out of it with full identity and hangs around for quite a while. The being is usually there for the funeral, certainly. He will very often hang around his possessions to see that they are not abused, and he can be given upsets if his wishes aren't carried out with regard to certain things.