Our understanding of life, viruses, and the relation between them is incomplete which means our definitions and lexicon as they are interrelated is also lacking

Our understanding of life, viruses, and the relation between them is incomplete which means our definitions and lexicon as they are interrelated is also lacking in resolution. Before the discovery of these Giant Viruses as I guess we are calling them now, you used to be able to make a useful distinction between cellular-based life, and viruses. Viruses were mere packets of information as far as our best understanding went with very simple mechanics. Cells are more complex, with a useful distinction being made between prokaryotes and eukaryotes when necessary, but each could be easily identified as being made up of one or more cells. As our understanding of life improves, so does our useful observations into that murky grey area between life and not-life, and I suspect we will have to potentially extend the definition of life but come up with a vocabulary that more usefully delimits the forms it can take from its most simplest forms into the murkier grey area where viruses start to resemble cell-based life. Science is a work in progress, and so must be the scientific lexicon. Consider further your use of the word "die" and is that really the word you would use when a virus expires? Maybe, if you consider them to be alive in the first place, but you might use the word "destroy" if you considered them to be more like an object, or at least not alive.