the.com/dead
the one status update nobody can post themselves.
means the permanent cessation of all biological function — no pulse, no breath, no coming back.
from from proto-germanic daudaz, ultimately tracing to the proto-indo-european root dheu, meaning to pass away or become senseless — the same root that gave us death and die, because language needed three words for the one thing everyone was avoiding.
legal momentbrain death, not heartbeat, defines it now
cell timelinesome cells keep working for hours after
hair mythhair and nails do not actually grow
schrodinger linkhis cat made dead a quantum punchline
for instance
schrodinger's cat — 1935 thought experiment, both dead and alive until observed
julius caesar — stabbed 23 times, senate floor, 44 bc
tutankhamun — dead at 19, still touring museums 3000 years later