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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