Death Process From Subtle Perspectives

(Idea from Earlyne Chaney and Diane Stein)

"Life in the physical body is directed and regulated by an extention of the silver cord that connects the aura bodies(etheric double, emotional, mental, spiritual, and the planes beyond).

This cord enters the etheric body at the crown and becomes the Sushumna, the central Kundalini channel, beginning at the throat.

It then descends to the heart where the seed atom of life is located, and where the oversoul is connected to the body through the silver cord.

The dense physical body of this life cord is the vagus nerve, which begins in the brain stem's medulla oblongata(causal body chakra).
The vagus nerve divides into two branches, one of which directs the heart rate and the other respiration/breathing.

The nerve then branches further into the abdomen and solar plexus. This vagus nerve extention of the silver cord is the source of the autonomic (nonconscious) nervous system.

The vagus nerve is the bridge between heart and physical brain, and the emotional and mental bodies on the physical plane. Soon after fetal conception, the heartbeat begins, and at death the heart and respiration stop, both by action of this nerve.

The physical seed atom is the connection and access of the oversoul to the incarnation, the bridge between body and soul.
There are physical, astral, and mental body seed atoms.

In the process of death,

The heart ceases to beat when the physical seed atom departs its home in the pulse point but life does not entirely cease until it has travelled up the vagus, entered the Sushumna at the throat, ascended through the medulla oblongata and outward through the top of the head.

With the departure of this physical seed atom, the sutratma or silver cord is loosed, and the life principle is completely withdrawn from the physical from.

It is indeed "dead"."