It ain’t death. It’s dying.
The Native Americans didn't use the word death when one of their relatives/people 'died." They called it 'passing over" - designating their belief (acknowledgment?) of continued life in another realm.
Those who have had the 'other side experience' and came back describe it a wondrous place...I've often thought that we don't have a thorough knowledge of it because people might choose suicide much more often.
Thing is, with suicide, (taking a life you didn't create), doesn't seem to slip you into the wondrous place but into a limbo where you may be stuck for some time to come?
TAke the case of 'past lives coming through' under hypnosis - or 'ghosts' being contacted by psychics:
There is a common thread. they almost invariably died a violent (before their appointed time?") death, often through suicide or homicide due in part to their life style.
I am of the opinion that those stories are not from the person's past lives, but from people in limbo who can use the person's body - which is rendered incapacitated under hypnosis, or with contact with a psychic , to make themselves heard.
Suicide, to me, would be too risky - changing what we may deem a hard situation here to one as bad or worse from which we may not escape for a much longer time.