• 0laura@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    15 days ago

    no, we should use the heart beating as a definition. why? because then I can say I’m undead and have died twice. that’s very cool 😎 pls don’t take that away from me 🥺 :(

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      14 days ago

      As an old and now retired medic. My personal definition of dead was if you made into the back of my amp-a-lamps or not. If you did you weren’t dead-- you were merely having a bit of a bad day. I might have needed to do your breathing for you and I might have needed to make your heart pump blood. But until some doctor somewhere decided you weren’t worth his time and effort, you were still alive. Because I don’t haul dead people.

      So, by my definition as a trained and professional medical person, you where never dead-dead. Just someone have a bad day among many others having a bad day at that time.

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      14 days ago

      But if you’ve died, then were undead, and then died again, you’d be un-undead right? So alive? It’s basic double jeopardy.

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        14 days ago

        You put the double ‘un’ but forgot the double ‘dead’.

        Oh, I didn’t realise you were actually catching the thing mid statement.


        Still:

        • A dead un-dead would be a re-dead, not very alive
        • Considering the 2x dead person is still capable of commenting, I would assume it came back after re-death and is now in some other condition.