no, we should use the heart beating as a definition. why? because then I can say I'm undead and have died twice. that's very cool 😎 pls don't take that away from me 🥺 :(

[–] bluewing@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago

As an old and now retired medic. My personal definition of dead was if you made into the back of my amp-a-lamps or not. If you did you weren't dead-- you were merely having a bit of a bad day. I might have needed to do your breathing for you and I might have needed to make your heart pump blood. But until some doctor somewhere decided you weren't worth his time and effort, you were still alive. Because I don't haul dead people.

So, by my definition as a trained and professional medical person, you where never dead-dead. Just someone have a bad day among many others having a bad day at that time.

[–] zerofk@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago

And how is lichdom treating you? Have you raised an army of skeleton warriors yet?

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But if you've died, then were undead, and then died again, you'd be un-undead right? So alive? It's basic double jeopardy.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

~~You put the double 'un' but forgot the double 'dead'.~~

Oh, I didn't realise you were actually catching the thing mid statement.

Still:

A dead un-dead would be a re-dead, not very alive
Considering the 2x dead person is still capable of commenting, I would assume it came back after re-death and is now in some other condition.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That depends entirely on whether the un- prefix only negates the other un- prefix, or the entire adjective.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The thing is that 'un' is different from stuff like 'not', 'non' and the likes, because it is not just denying the referred word but saying that the effect of the referred word was reverted somehow.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You're thinking a little too hard about a silly joke

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Your silly joke was on Programmer Humour. You might find geeks and nerds here.

Overthinking is our ikigai.

Now get out of line and continue with further analysis of the 'un'