Yeah, I feel like "clinically dead" is a technical term with a limited scope that got used casually because it sounds dramatic, and people started taking it ser

Yeah, I feel like "clinically dead" is a technical term with a limited scope that got used casually because it sounds dramatic, and people started taking it seriously. "Dead" is a word that's pretty well-defined for most of human history. If you're dead, you can't come back. If you do come back, barring supernatural intervention, you weren't dead. It's pretty simple.