Is that what it sounds like? (I don't know anything about succulents.)
Unfortunately, yes. The death bloom is kind of like a last attempt for the plant to pass on its genes. For one reason or another, it has started dying. It focuses all of its energy on producing one last bloom, and dies shortly after the blooms close up.
Death blooms in succulents grow quite differently from a regular bloom; they appear much like an etiolated succulent, and don’t grow from a bloom stalk.
Some succulent species bloom only once in their lifetime and then die, but those are technically not the same as a death bloom. The former is a natural part of their lifetime cycle, while the latter only happens when the plant realises that the environment (for whatever reason) isn’t suitable for growing