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[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 50 points 1 day ago

The heart beating is not a good definition of being alive in my opinion. The heart stopping temporarily doesn't mean you died, you were just in terribly grave danger.

If a person is defined by their heart, what does that make a heart transplant?

utterly useless definition.

[-] 0laura@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 day 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 🥺 :(

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day 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.

[-] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours 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.

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

That depends entirely on whether the un- prefix only negates the other un- prefix, or the entire adjective.

[-] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 21 hours ago

The thing is that 'un' is different from stuff like 'not', 'non' and the likes, because it is not just denying the referred word but saying that the effect of the referred word was reverted somehow.