Death Tastes like Sugar in the Afterlife

It's 2065, and it's illegal to let someone physically die. To keep them "alive", people's consciousnesses are kept working even as their bodies rot on earth. Stillborn children's consciousnesses must be implanted into mothers' brains, and sick patients' "souls" must be transferred into a loved one or into a "soul" facility, leaving hundreds of thousands lost and afraid in their own minds without any release or consolation for not having bodies anymore. Grant Tolkin (M41), is suffering from stage 4 lung cancer. He's compulsively suicidal and is being kept alive against his will. His young but bored nurse, Penelope Dune (F26) is the only one with thick enough skin to care for him, and soon she falls in love with their connection, smuggling hallucinogenic "after" pills that can transport them away from the world they hate into a temporary daydream. However, is the after-life exactly how they pictured? And is the real world really as bad as they think it is? They have the power to change the law, but at what personal price comes the liberation of the rest of the world?