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To be fair, I wouldnt be that shocked to find out thats how the maintainer of some core library exists. Permanently on life support, because no one else can understand their code.

I think you just described every COBOL programmers retirement.
Basically the Emperor of Mankind, being kept alive else all of humanity as we know it is doomed.

"He's coding! I need a red bull, cargo shorts, and quiet classic rock, stat!"

NO that is the WRONG kind of coding!!

We need a monster, a short skirt, some stripey colorful thigh high socks, and Vocaloid music!

The heart beating is not a good definition of being alive in my opinion. The heart stopping temporarily doesn't mean you died, you were just in terribly grave danger.

If a person is defined by their heart, what does that make a heart transplant?

utterly useless definition.

no, we should use the heart beating as a definition. why? because then I can say I'm undead and have died twice. that's very cool 😎 pls don't take that away from me 🥺 :(
- As an old and now retired medic. My personal definition of dead was if you made into the back of my amp-a-lamps or not. If you did you weren't dead-- you were merely having a bit of a bad day. I might have needed to do your breathing for you and I might have needed to make your heart pump blood. But until some doctor somewhere decided you weren't worth his time and effort, you were still alive. Because I don't haul dead people.
  
  So, by my definition as a trained and professional medical person, you where never dead-dead. Just someone have a bad day among many others having a bad day at that time.
- And how is lichdom treating you? Have you raised an army of skeleton warriors yet?
- But if you've died, then were undead, and then died again, you'd be un-undead right? So alive? It's basic double jeopardy.
It's a good thing that the lack of a heartbeat isn't the ultimate definition of dead. But it can be one of the markers of dead.
- I mean, sure, you won't stay alive for very long with a stopped heart.
We are all the cardiac system of Theseus on this glorious day.
We use a lot to define being alive not just the heart. The heart stopping is just an easy way to pronounce someone dead. What you described is called a pause. Not really the same thing. Brain death is also a thing. Any organ transplant allows you to function when otherwise you wouldn't be able to.
- I meant like, when someones heart stops and gets restarted again with cpr or a defibrillator or something. People often call that being dead, and coming back.
Brain oxygen levels are the most important one iirc
- Because once those hit a certain danger threshold there's not much to 'bring back' right? I vaguely recall reading that somewhere.
- Yeah, I'm not in any way medically anything but I think I remember Dr Mike or one of those talking about how brain death is considered death or something like that.
Hey why do you think they call it "grave" danger
- i know this is a joke, but i find it quite interesting those two words have completely different etymologies.
  
  Grave as in burial site comes from an old proto indo european word for "dig", while grave as in serious comes from french.
- Grave in this context just means deep. That's one of the meanings of grave

CPR doesn't bring a decompensated body back to life. You gotta figure out the problem in order to do that and fix it. That's what the algorithms we use in a code is for (as opposed to the algorithms you guys code). That's the real esoteric necromancy. Epi, bicarb, epi.

https://hospitalhandbook.ucsf.edu/04-comprehensive-acls-algorithm/04-comprehensive-acls-algorithm

But they are literally dead
- Not having a heartbeat and not breathing doesn't mean you're dead. Intensive care departments are literally full of people with medically paralysed breathing muscles (i.e. not breathing) on ventilation machines. People go onto heart/lung bypass machines everyday to have heart surgery and their heart is stopped. You just need to keep oxygenated blood going around, keeping those tissues alive till you get the heart and breathing back online (this is what CPR is trying to do).
  
  When the brain stem is dead tissue, then you're truly dead (but even then you can be kept "alive" artificially if you're already on a ventilation machine in a suitable intensive care).
- And they'll stay dead if all you do is CPR. CPR alone is closer to necrophilia than necromancy.
- Dead is more of a legal than a biological definition nowadays. There's definitely some leeway.
- being dead is surprisingly flexible with modern medicine
- As an old and retired medic, the lack of respiration and pulse doesn't mean you are dead-dead. On the scale of "Not Dead to Dead-Dead, a lack of respiration's and pulse means you are at the maybe dead on the line. And other factors will make the final determination about if you are actually dead or not.
  
  The first determining factor in figuring out where the patient is on the scale, is if you make it into my amp-a-lamps or not. If you do, you are alive at least for a little while longer and I'mma let the doctor sort it all out for you. If you don't make it in the back of my bus, then you are dead-dead and nothing can change that-- not even god himself.

Isn't this the plot of the Matrix?

Depends if you go with the original idea, or the battery idea designed by Hollywood execs who didn't think the audiences would understand.

... thus proving that Hollywood execs and the people they make their changes for are only good for batteries*, but I digress.

* For legal reasons, this is a joke. I have to say this because some Hollywood execs have more lawyers than braincells**.

** For all the same reasons, this is also a joke.
- Well, the Matrix was a huge success despite being dumb, so they seem to have made a smart decision.

getting all the relevant equipment and personnel

Yeah, doesn’t sound like the kind of coding I’m familiar with.

It reads like two Chatbots having a conversation

Hey!

Necromancy gets a bad name.

Code on into the great beyond