This is incorrect. You are not supposed to make any assumptions about the state of an object that has been destructed or moved from. A “dead state” would still

This is incorrect. You are not supposed to make any assumptions about the state of an object that has been destructed or moved from. A “dead state” would still be a state, whereas a “dead object” should be thought of as having no state at all, i.e. not being an object any longer.