pre-dead

Not yet dead.

As always Mullen speaks for the dead, the pre-dead, and the after-dead:

Not yet dead.

Garbage removal in and around private pre-dead rats initially low.

The anchors that hold him to earth pull loose, a common phenomenon among the pre-dead.

Not yet dead.

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."

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.

Not yet dead.

Then the man told Mamet what he fed the anaconda: "pre-dead chickens."

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?