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Dasus@lemmy.world 6 days agoYeah. People aren’t objects. Even if human remains were, you’d have a hard time arguing when a person stops existing without “well once they’ve rotted for a week, they’re definitely not alive.” yeah no shit
minorkeys@lemmy.world 5 days ago
The person isn’t object but the body, specifically, definitely is.
Dasus@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Again, too vague, and you still have the problem of when.
Also, Google “man wakes up in morgue”, you’ll find tons of documented cases of people waking up at the morgue, because someone was mistaken about them being dead.
Things like that is why necrophilia is generally frowned upon. Even necrophiles probably wouldn’t like to fuck the bodies which are every clearly dead, as in, say, a bloated corpse recovered from water. There’s no mistaking whether someone like that is dead or not.
But someone at the morgue who’s been there less than 24 hours is still possibly alive and definitely a “they” and not an “it”.