'nother friend'a mine, before she lost all of her memories, she kept a list of the disappearances, and actually asked the warden what happened.
Apparently it's some sort of error in the system that brought us here in the first place. That ripped us out of our worlds? We float in some sort of purgatory void, completely unconscious.
Spooky. [Or not really.]
This isn't medicine or magic you're dealing with here, Reisen. It's technology. Ridiculously advanced technology.