Remember the second part is “it just changes state”. Matter is energy, energy is matter, you can convert one to the other but nothing gets created. And no there’s still real death, as your life energy changes state to inert matter and eventually worm food.
Not necessarily, think of your brain as a cell phone or WI-FI sending out wireless brain waves to God and being recorded in His laptop.
“as your life energy changes state to inert matter and eventually worm food.”
In some versions of the beliefs about a soul, your statement applies only to your “physical” life, your phsyical body and not your “essence”, your soul - the life force from G-d that animated the physical life-body.
And, still, there are various beliefs about the state of the soul immediately after death.