When metabolism ceases with no prospect of starting again, we call it death . Machines also convert materials and energy for their needs, create waste, and could be said to die. Life undergoes evolution . Notably, simpler forms are succeeded by forms with greater organization. Cars evolve also, in their way.
Computers do, too.
These latter properties of life are sometimes used to make the point that life is hard to define. Another kind of life, entirely different from ours, is conceivable, yes. But the only kind we have ever seen is the one we are part of here on Earth. Viruses and prions are not alive. Viruses and prions lie on the fringe of life.