Talk:Yang Xiao Long/@comment-26838620-20150901052756/@comment-80.192.105.94-20150903022954

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Behold, the definition of life. See Wikipedia for more details and sources. While life is admittedly descriptive in definition (hence why viruses occupy a grey area), these are the standard criteria which plants certainly fit.

The brain dead are "vegetables", which have been established to be alive. They are dead as a person but not as an organism.