When we sleep, we are technically half-dead. So, wouldn’t it be safe to say that everyone currently living has died many times?

  • Pronell@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Petite mort, translated from French, means “little death”, and is generally used as a euphemism for orgasm.

    Some of us have died… a lot.

  • stembolts@programming.dev
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    6 months ago

    Nah.
    You’re just taking liberties with your misinterpretations.
    Tho that is fun to do, so nothing wrong with discussing it.

    My method for resolving this would be : Monitor your heart rate and breathing, monitor the heart rate and breathing of a dead person, if they match then sure.

    If you adjusted your analogy to unconsciousness, and compared sleep to something near death, like a coma, braindead person, or something else (idk I’m not knowledgeable about medical stuff) then I think that conversation could go interesting places.

    Good question tho.

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    6 months ago

    When you sleep you could be half dead in any sense you want except for technical. You are technically alive when you sleep.