It should be noted that the Heaven's Gate group did not take their bodies with them. Therefore, if they did indeed end up at "the next level above human," as they claimed they would, they did so only as spirits. In other words, they "died." They will have to wait for other adults to conceive the fetuses into which they can enter, in order to experience physical existence at that level of reality, if it is their destiny to do so.

You may point out that in the caterpillar-to-butterfly example, the caterpillar may just change form, but the butterfly eventually completes its life cycle, lays the eggs for the new generation of caterpillars, and then "dies" (leaves its body behind). That is true for 3D butterflies, but when we have completely transformed our consciousness to that of our next level of being, we will complete each life after that by consciously choosing to change form, again and again and again. We will never again have to leave our body behind (which is what is meant by dying), so therefore, we will never have to "die" again.