Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 17:26:50 -0800 (PST)
From: oconnell-AT-oz.net (Mark O'Connell)
Subject: Re: Warhol/sci-fi/turnips/death


>Death, therefore, is not a state of the subject but a
>category for sorting persons. As our medicine changes, our criteria for
>recognizing who is death and who is alive changes, and that is all.
>
>-axel

Death is not a state of the subject?  That's because the subject is dead,
right?  If we recognized the dead as being alive would they not be dead?

Mark O'Connell
oconnell-AT-oz.net