Cessation Is the View That to Die Is to Cease

question 2

Multiple Choice

Cessation is the view that to die is to cease to be alive. According to Gilmore, Cessation

• A) is true and informative.
• B) is true but uninformative.
• C) is false because things can die without then ceasing to be alive. When a tardigrade becomes cryptobiotic, it does die, but retains the capacity to undergo the relevant processes, so it doesn't cease to be alive.
• D) is false because things can cease to be alive without then dying. When a tardigrade becomes cryptobiotic, it does cease to be alive, but it doesn't then die.
• E) is false because there is more than one sense of 'die' and of 'alive'.

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