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Being even more pedantic, he maybe still is, by some definition.
by ghayes 3y ago
Being even more pedantic, he maybe still is, by some definition.
- SllX 3y agoYou're going to have to explain that one. My first guess is you mean his legacy but a man's legacy is not the same as his life.
- HankB99 3y agohttps://www.snopes.com/fact-check/suspended-animation/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/suspended-animation/
- thatguy0900 3y agoThere's a popular rumor that he froze his head in anticipation of being revived in the future
- SllX 3y agoAh. Let's generously say that did happen and it works out for him at some indeterminate point in the future. Would you then consider the frozen and completely inactive head disconnected from a living body vital for sustaining the living processes of the head of Walt Disney still living in the present? If this thread is to be completely pedantic, we have to go all the way here.
- k12sosse 3y agoNot living. But liveable. Not alive but not dead. Sort of pre- death, but post- life. How about: statically being
- calamari4065 3y agoDead until proven otherwise
- biztos 3y agoI don’t think this question can be properly answered without asking someone thus revivified.
- SllX 3y agoSo is it like naming rights for discoveries then? The first guy to get pulled out of the freezer gets to decide if he was alive or dead during his tenure as a popsicle?
- biztos 3y agoIMO all we need is one successful reanimation and suddenly those popsicles will be presumptively "alive" in a legal sense. But in a philosophical sense, yeah, every voice will count but the first voice will count most, until it's overtaken by a more eloquent one. Assuming they can even communicate.
- a_gnostic 3y ago"That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die." –A. Alhazred
- babyshake 3y agoThere's a poetic justice to the fact that allegedly Disney's head is frozen in a suspended state, while his namesake company is essentially focused at this point only on re-animating intellectual property from the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s where many of the original talent involved (not to mention the original cultural context) has moved on.
- ta1243 3y agoIn the UK a lot of work remains in copyright for the life of the creator (plus 70 years) If the creator never dies, then the work doesn't go into public domain. I could see that as a Disney strategy.