Then Vanning suicided and came back to communicate with Flynn. They were depraved and reckless. In 2050 the Vanning Institute announce findings that there was an afterlife, but not for everyone. Only about one in a million made it to the afterlife, according to the Vanning people. When the body dies, that web should be able to go on existing, like a butterfly coming out of the cocoon.
Death is simply the process that hatches the mind from the body.
But it doesn't work that way because of the death trauma. Some scientists think that the death trauma is nature's ejecting mechanism, to get the mind free of the body. But it works too hard and louses up everything. Dying is a tremendous psychic shock, and most of the time the energy web gets disrupted, ripped all to hell. The Vanning Institute went on working.