I was confused by their question at first. Then I tried to explain that there is no "legally dead" alcohol number, but I was unable to convince them. They kept demanding that I give them the number.
That is not how it works. You are either dead, or you are alive. Lab ETOH results do not change that status.
It is true that she had some superficial characteristics that made her look dead. She was lying there without moving and she was unresponsive. However, on a cellular level, she was quite alive. Also, she was breathing and her heart was beating, and her skin was warm.
That made her alive.
Yes, there are legal variations on the two states, such as brain death. But that distinction is also based on bodily reality, not a lab test.
And if a group of people all decide that their particularly stupid friend is "brain dead", that does not change the reality of his actual brain function. Their opinions do not change reality.
The young people of today (and some older ones) strongly believe that checking a different box on a form can make a person literally change their body sex. They are encouraged in this belief by the entire Establishment, which puts out articles, TV and movies and also passes laws to firm up this delusion.
There is bodily reality and there are appearances. Just as a passed out drunk is not actually dead, a person in a dress is not literally a woman, no matter what box they check on a vital statistics form, or what the legal system decrees.
That is not how it works.
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