Yes, when these features are nonexistant, the person is called ‘dead’ - that is, we can say with a high degree of confidence that their concious self has permanently ceased to exist. But, of course, there is life in the body that continues. The persons own DNA will continue to exist for a while and even replicate. There are billions of organisms in the body that also continue to replicate.
Before a body has these features, it does not have a concious self. When we refer to someone as ‘alive’ we are not refering to any life that the body possesses, but rather their concious self.
So again, it a matter of the concious self stopping and starting, not ‘life’ stopping and starting. Life is a continuum.
I thought it was a cabaret?
So, would everyone in the thread agree that “dead” isn’t the opposite of “alive,” and thus the matter of determining the moment of death doesn’t have an analogy in the “moment” of life, or am I jumping the gun?