When we leave our body, our spiritual awareness becomes more acute. On earth, our brains act as a filter to suppress this acute spiritual awareness. At death, we lose our physical body. Nothing else is lost. Our senses and our sense of awareness are tremendously greater when we are outside of our physical body.
Birth is a sleep and a forgetting.
Death is awakening and remembering. Time stops when we die. Past, present and future become the eternal now. Our life on earth can be thought of as one channel on a radio. At death, it is as if someone spins the dial on the radio to a different channel.