Been there.
When my mom was dying, I was laying on the couch next to her. I was reading a book. Then as I am reading, I could actually see something that looked like a black minature tornado which was sucking my mom's soul from her body, into mine, and then up into the air.
This was happening.
I was looking up in the air, and I went outside and I was mentally talking to her in the sky, then some other dude came in front of her and I was talking to him.
I asked them all the salient questions of existence (I am a philosopher so it was, I hate to say it, a golden opportunity to understand truth). I carry a book around and as I was communication to someone up in the sky, I wrote it down verbatim.
At the end of the convo, the man said that she was going to her back to us and then she did not die at that point.
Later, I just looked at her to she what happened.
There is defenitaly and afterlife.
One thing she said was later: "I want to go home".
You know where that is.