A video below shows that by raising yourself in creative mode, then switching to survival and pausing the game the player will still fall and die, despite the game being paused.
Environment
Seed 1691256543523180978 at cords 12070, 1485 in version 1.21.5.
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Thank you for your report!
We are tracking this issue in MC-168600, so this ticket is being resolved and linked as a duplicate.
That ticket has already been resolved as Works As Intended, which means this is not considered a bug and will not be fixed. Please do not leave a comment on the linked ticket.
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