Makes me think about the past few years, including backlash:
Not my work!

In the literature on the afterlife, the “first death” is regarded as the death of the physical body while the “second death” is regarded as the dissolution of the astral body. (1) The first death moves us from the Physical Plane (3D) to the Astral (4D) and the second death from the Astral (4D) to the Mental Plane (5D).
The second death on the inner planes of life is the nearest equivalent I can think of to what we call “Ascension.”

Physical Ascension is a new phenomenon in the physical universe. As things stand right now, a person’s consciousness could evolve while the person remained in the physical body. We call that “enlightenment.”

But if a person ascended to the Mental Plane or 5D in the past, they had to leave or be outside the physical body; there are a few exceptions
Jesus & Elijah ascended to the inner planes physically; Elijah ceased to exist in his physical body.