Greetings,

Dear Alan, is this one of your 'quizzes'? 

We have discussed that extremely lost souls may be very, very, very  rarely be obliterated.

Also there are some souls that believe they are dead and so sleep deeply until the end of an age.--would you call them dead?  They think they are, but they are apparently awoken eventually because that's what their beliefs direct them to do.

Bets

Looking at this concept from a higher perspective than Earth reality, death is simply an illusion.  Death is actually birth, where we leave our old bodies behind and emerge into a higher level in a finer energy body.  I believe that as we shift into higher dimensions after death, the slower vibrating energy that once was a part of us "dies", or in a way is shed, for it is no longer a part of us, as we are now a being of higher energy.  I have read reports by experienced explorers who have first hand knowledge of this.  There are apparently several "deaths" after the physical one as our consciousness evolves into higher levels.  The final "death" we experience in this system of consciousness is when we leave it altogether.