Exactly - how can you die if you weren't alive?

In medicine, a fetal pole (about five - six weeks gestation) is referred to as a `live' entity. Literally, the word `live'. I can quote my first ultrasound if anyone doesn't believe me.

I've asked this question before but haven't received an answer - if it isn't alive, then what is it? How would you term it's state of being?

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We've got rules and maps and guns in our backs, but we still can't just behave ourselves. Even if to save our own lives, we are a brutal kind. The Shins