human death

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Etymology

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Compound of human +‎ death.

Noun

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human death (countable and uncountable, plural human deaths)

  1. (law, philosophy) The irreversible loss of functioning of a human life as a whole.
    Coordinate term: human life
    • 2023, Sergius Bulgakov, The Sophiology of Death = Essays on Eschatology: Personal, Political, Universal, page 43:
      Into the world entered death, human death, which is quite distinct from the death that reigns in the animal world, despite all external similarities.