Meaning of pre-dead | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Not yet dead.
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2. Dying; moribund; terminally ill.
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3. Doomed to die soon;
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4. Alive
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Examples

“As always Mullen speaks for the dead, the pre-dead, and the after-dead:”

“Garbage removal in and around private pre-dead rats initially low.”

“The anchors that hold⟳ him to earth pull⟳ loose, a common phenomenon among the pre-dead.”

“He was feeling better now and had upgraded his own⟳ condition from pre-dead to feeble.”

“Few of us have⟳ enough experience⟳ with severe disability to make⟳ an informed choice in an advance directive, but clearly, having a significant disability does not mean⟳ you are "pre-dead."”

“Echoing this constellation, a version of Mcllvaine, the narrator of The Waterworks, reappears in City of God, where he is visited by "the Reverend Dr. Thomas Pemberton" in a hospice replete with "the generic blank stares of the pre-dead".”

“If new legal considerations regarding treatment of the pre-dead are introduced, then the provisions ought to allow⟳ individuals to express⟳ prior wishes as to their preferences for how they wish⟳ to be cared for in pre-dead states, or even to allow⟳ for a 'conscience clause' such that they or their advocates could reject⟳ such a notion whilst retaining no right of veto over the existing cardiorespiratory and brain stem considerations of death.”

“he had enough time to marry⟳ and rear children, but that given statistics and his lengthy family history, life beyond 45 seemed unlikely. After 40, he began to view⟳ his life as "pre-dead."”

“I wanted to produce⟳ a straightforward, unsentimental view⟳ of a place⟳ that has been shrouded in mystery, to offer⟳ the human face⟳ of these men, the pre-dead.”

“He attacks the notion of a "just war" and the sacrifice it demands in Sabra youth: "We are all pre-dead in those eighty million battles."”

“The pre-dead humans who would meet⟳ the tips of her claws if they approached Strider again.”

“And he was retired—or pre-dead, as he preferred to call⟳ it.”

“Smith also worked a transformation of the living into the pre-dead in a rare field report⟳ aired on The Fox Report⟳ on August 31.”

“Then the man told Mamet what he fed the anaconda: "pre-dead chickens."”

“That statement presupposes that everyone in the world agrees with the nonsensical "pre-born human." Why not say⟳ "pre-dead human" since we are all going to die⟳ at some point⟳?”

“In effect, we are all pre-ill, if not virtually pre-dead.”

“Once you're dead it's easier. But then, likely, you are dead and haven't realized it. Only the pre-dead insist on linearity's sad traps.”

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