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Do you consider a person in coma, living or dead? 

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In human being, it is more difficult to define the living state. eg. Patients lying in coma, supported by machines that replace heart and lungs are brain - dead with no self consciousness.
Some of these patients never come back to normal life.
They can neither be called living nor non-living or dead.
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