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Death makes us helplessly polite.
We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.
how, exactly, to define death, to pinpoint the precise moment when the spirit—the soul, the chi, whatever you wish to call it—has ceased to exist and all that remains is a corpse.
life and death is not a binary system.” It’s a continuum.