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    If death is the loss of capacity, there must be a persist... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→To die is to lose the capacity to engage in vital activities.

    If death is the loss of capacity, there must be a persisting subject who undergoes that loss, but the very cessation of vital processes eliminates the subject who could be said to have lost anything.

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    Key Terms

    capacity(Theory of capacity)
    A subject's ability to make decisions, assessed by paradigm examples and the presence of necessary (and possibly sufficient) abilities.
    cessation of vital processes(in philosophy of death and life)
    The stopping of the basic life functions that keep an organism alive, like breathing and heartbeat—essentially, death.
    persisting subject(in metaphysics and philosophy of identity)
    A thing (usually a person or conscious being) that continues to exist over time and remains 'the same thing' throughout changes.
    the problem of personal identity at death(in metaphysics and philosophy of death)
    A philosophical puzzle: if a person dies, does 'the person' still exist to have *experienced* death, or does death eliminate the person before they can experience it?

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