# pre-dead
## English
### Alternative forms

* predead

### Etymology

From pre- +‎ dead.

### Adjective

pre-dead (not comparable)
* Not yet dead.
** 2012, Claudia Rankine, Lisa Sewell, Eleven More American Women Poets in the 21st Century, page 214:As always Mullen speaks for the dead, the pre-dead, and the after-dead:
** Dying; moribund; terminally ill.
*** 1969, Pesticides - Volume 3, page 48:Garbage removal in and around private pre-dead rats initially low.
*** 1999, Joe Jackson, William F. Burke (Jr.), Dead Run:The anchors that hold him to earth pull loose, a common phenomenon among the pre-dead.
*** 2000, Doug J. Swanson, House of Corrections, page 90:He was feeling better now and had upgraded his own condition from pre-dead to feeble.
*** 2005, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources, Federal health programs and those who cannot care for themselves, page 55:Few of us have enough experience with severe disability to make an informed choice in an advance directive, but clearly, having a significant disability does not mean you are "pre-dead."
*** 2009, Michael Wutz, Enduring Words: Literary Narrative in a Changing Media Ecology:Echoing this constellation, a version of Mcllvaine, the narrator of The Waterworks, reappears in City of God, where he is visited by "the Reverend Dr. Thomas Pemberton" in a hospice replete with "the generic blank stares of the pre-dead".
*** 2013, Dr Simon Woods, Ms Lynn Hagger, A Good Death?: Law and Ethics in Practice:If new legal considerations regarding treatment of the pre-dead are introduced, then the provisions ought to allow individuals to express prior wishes as to their preferences for how they wish to be cared for in pre-dead states, or even to allow for a 'conscience clause' such that they or their advocates could reject such a notion whilst retaining no right of veto over the existing cardiorespiratory and brain stem considerations of death.
** Doomed to die soon;
*** 1994, John S. Rolland, Families, Illness, and Disability:he had enough time to marry and rear children, but that given statistics and his lengthy family history, life beyond 45 seemed unlikely. After 40, he began to view his life as "pre-dead."
*** 1997, Texas death row, page 7:I wanted to produce a straightforward, unsentimental view of a place that has been shrouded in mystery, to offer the human face of these men, the pre-dead.
*** 2006, Nitsah Ben-Ari, Suppression of the Erotic in Modern Hebrew Literature, page 66:He attacks the notion of a "just war" and the sacrifice it demands in Sabra youth: "We are all pre-dead in those eighty million battles."
*** 2011, Gena Showalter, The Darkest Surrender:The pre-dead humans who would meet the tips of her claws if they approached Strider again.
*** 2015, T. C. Boyle, The Harder They Come:And he was retired—or pre-dead, as he preferred to call it.
*** 2015, Bernie Cook, Flood of Images: Media, Memory, and Hurricane Katrina, page 56:Smith also worked a transformation of the living into the pre-dead in a rare field report aired on The Fox Report on August 31.
** Alive
*** 1984, New York - Volume 17, page 41:Then the man told Mamet what he fed the anaconda: "pre-dead chickens."
*** 2001, Scott Stein, C P Kaiser, When Falls the Coliseum, page 91:That statement presupposes that everyone in the world agrees with the nonsensical "pre-born human." Why not say "pre-dead human" since we are all going to die at some point?
*** 2003, Giles Emerson, City of Sin, page 229:In effect, we are all pre-ill, if not virtually pre-dead.
*** 2004, Pretext - Issues 9-11, page 15:Once you're dead it's easier. But then, likely, you are dead and haven't realized it. Only the pre-dead insist on linearity's sad traps.

### Anagrams

* dreaped