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    It is not the case that Being dead consists in unviability (the loss of the capacity to deploy vital activities).

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    • 1.A organism in suspended animation (e.g., cryonically preserved) has lost the capacity to deploy vital activities yet is not straightforwardly dead.
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    • 2.If unviability is sufficient for death, then suspended organisms must be classified as dead, which contradicts both scientific and ordinary usage.
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    • 3.The loss of life account therefore either misidentifies the necessary condition or conflates temporary incapacity with permanent loss.
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    • 1.Aristotle's hylomorphic account identifies death with the permanent dissolution of the soul-form, not merely the suspension of its functional expression.
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    • 2.A corpse that retains structural integrity momentarily after cardiac arrest has lost vital activity but has not yet undergone the formal dissolution constitutive of death.
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    • 3.Unviability thus tracks a symptom of death rather than its metaphysical constitution, confusing epistemological indicators with ontological conditions.
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    • 1.The loss of life account is thoroughly established in ordinary usage.
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    • 2.When we say that something is dead, we mean to emphasize that the capacity to deploy vital activities has been lost.
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    • 3.When we deny that frozen embryos are dead, we mean to emphasize that they have not lost the capacity to deploy their vital activities.
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