human death
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]human death (countable and uncountable, plural human deaths)
- (law, philosophy) The irreversible loss of functioning of a human life as a whole.
- Coordinate term: human life
- 2023, Sergius Bulgakov, The Sophiology of Death = Essays on Eschatology: Personal, Political, Universal, page 43:
- Into the world entered death, human death, which is quite distinct from the death that reigns in the animal world, despite all external similarities.