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by eric_h 3582 days ago
> Conversely, we'd call a person dead even if some individual component cells in their body were still alive.

I would imagine that we call a person dead long before the majority of their individual cells are dead.

It's just when they stop working together.

(This is admittedly an un-researched, intuitive opinion, but I can't see why it would be wrong, please correct me if it is).