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Rethinking Death: A Philosophical and Biomedical Model of Ontological Priority

La Shun L. Carroll

Philosophy and Realistic Reflection · 95–115 · 10.55121/prr.v2i1.501

This study introduces a new conceptual model of death that repositions it as an ontologically primary state—one that occurs before and initiates the biological processes traditionally associated with dying. Challenging the conventional linear sequence of life → dying → death, the paper argues that death should not be defined by