>>So it is your own personal belief that the souls of the departed are dead or in a state of suspended animation?<<
I haven’t a clue. The scripture doesn’t go into a lot of detail about the quality of existence of people between the time they die and the resurrection.
Yet, you've argued definitively to the contrary on this thread.
"In which also coming He preached to those spirits that were in prison:" 1 Peter 3:19