>>Nothing that is deemed as an opposite can exist
>independently
>>of the other.
>
>This is just a failure to understand what an opposite is. The
>same being can't be both alive and dead, *obviously*, but
>clearly both states exist in the world. There are living
>people and corpses. And their bodies are in exactly opposite
>states from each other.
>

Death cannot exist independently on it's own. Life cannot exist independently on it's own. The presence of life points to the absence of it. They are in a relationship that cannot be separated into two parts. You cannot have the foreground without the background. Pointing to a corpse and pointing to a living body is identifying the same process at varied states of itself.

We would be unable to identify anything as dead if there was no life to contrast it.

>>>Opposites come in pairs. That's how they work.
>>>
>>>>Life & Death
>>
>>The relationship between life and death is inseparable. You
>>cannot have Life without Death, and you cannot have Death
>>without Life.
>
>Tell that to an immortal jellyfish.
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_dohrnii
>


"Biological immortality refers to a stable or decreasing rate of mortality from cellular senescence as a function of chronological age. Various unicellular and multicellular species may achieve this state either throughout their existence or after living long enough. A biologically immortal living being can still die from means other than senescence, such as through injury or disease."