Hideo Kojima revealed new things at the Tribeca Talk that made me come up with a theory.
So we know that in a specific place in the game, we're actually controlling the camera, and not Sam himself. I'm guessing this place is the Purgatory we saw in the Game Awards 2017 trailer. Regarding to that he also said that there will be times where we will be Norman Reedus himself, and not Sam. And we also know that we will be able to customize Sam with different clothes, hairstyles, and equipments.
So with all these informations pieced together..
Maybe the Purgatory is a place where every Sam who died goes and stay there for a few minutes (we see in the trailer that there are other human bodies floating around). So it's underwater and all these floating bodies are actually other versions of Sam who were played by a different person before, and then we are the camera and we have to "choose" another Sam to continue the game with. Since this Sam would have been played by someone else previously, he would probably be customized a different way than our Sam was, so it would be kinda like being Norman Reedus himself, and taking on the role of a character. That would mean that every copy of the game played around the world would be a Death Stranding parallel universe, and "we", as the player, represent the soul, or the consciousness of Sam and we travel like that from bodies to bodies each time the character dies. This would very well explain why in that specific scene we see a naked Sam floating, and then the camera goes deeper underwater and there is another Sam laying there. The camera enter this Sam's mouth and the baby does a "thumbs up" sign, in an approbation way. At this moment, we probably come back to our game party with this specific Sam. I think that would make sense knowing that the game feels very lonely but also has elements that connect players together. We will share our Sams between us without ever being able to really connect and interact with each other.
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