{
  "id": "death.biological",
  "term": "death",
  "sense": "biological",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 16,
  "arena": "common",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "when a living thing is not here any more, its life ends",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "live.biological",
      "loss.economic",
      "change.process",
      "life.biological"
    ],
    "interaction": "the persistence of life ceases through change, resulting in the absence of what was once present",
    "novel_properties": [
      "irreversible cessation of life",
      "emergence of absence",
      "end of biological continuity"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The last known Tasmanian tiger died in captivity at Beaumaris Zoo on September 7, 1936.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers halted all dividend payouts to shareholders permanently.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Voyager 1's signal faded beyond detection in 2025 as its RTG power output dropped below operational threshold.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "death",
    "deaths"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added 'change.process' and 'life.biological' to components to align with the conceptual basis of biological death. Definition remains accurate and concise."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-death.biological"
}