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Originally Posted by leadville
hello - You may nearly have died. You don't come back from death, just sometimes from near-death.
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It seems you do come back from death. Clinical death is characterized by the cessation of all activity in the heart and brain, whereas if no intervention were to be performed it would be a path of no return.
We are simply discovering that death is a process, and sometimes it can be reverted by medical procedures or even "miraculous" spontaneous remissions/revivals.
There have been people dead for many hours that were later revived. They were dead. They were brought back from the dead.
Now, of course, we can play the game of always pushing our definition of death further into that point of no return, much like we do with AI and intelligence. But that's all it is: playing with definitions. It hasn't changed the actual meaning.