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    It is not the case that To die is to lose the capacity to engage in vital activities.

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    • 1.Lucretius and Epicurus argued death is not a state the subject enters but a permanent absence of any subject to whom loss could accrue.
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    • 2.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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    • 3.Fred Feldman's deprivationism requires that death be bad for the one who dies, yet the loss-of-capacity account conflates the process of dying with the state of being dead, smuggling in a subject where none exists.
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    • 1.Persistent vegetative state patients lack capacity for vital activities yet are not classified as dead by most philosophical and medical criteria.
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    • 2.If loss of capacity for vital activities were sufficient for death, we would be committed to the counterintuitive view that deeply comatose patients are already dead.
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    • 1.Being alive consists in having the capacity to engage in vital activities.
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    • 2.Death is the loss of this capacity.
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