the_body_is_always_'dead'
Thus have I read / heard.
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The body is "alive" because of the living_force within. When this living force leaves the body, it is said that the body is dead.
But actually it is always dead.
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In 1974, at the ISKCON center in the countryside near Frankfurt, West Germany, His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada had the following dialogue with Professor Karlfried Graf von Durckheim. Professor Durckheim, a noted religious psychologist...

The physical body is nothing more than a collection of "dead" matter.
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