It just seems like a strange thing to be involved with it. In my world, many regard the soul as being somewhat distinct from the body, where one is a transient thing, and the other continues on long after the person dies. So for distance from death, or for the current state of the body, to have some sort of bearing on Soul seems to go against that thought.

[ Lalala not mentioning that's not what he believes, but if Japan wanted to stick with Shintoism, he wasn't going to be the one to tell them the truth. ]