Our definition of what's death coincided with us not being technically able to recover anyone from it. That's the reason it included "non recovery" (e.g. permanence).
Death includes a person having no brain activity, no breathing, no metabolism, no heart rate, no consciousness, etc. The permanence of those things is an accidental attribute of death, not it's fundament (that why we can say: "When you're dead, you're dead forever" or can imagine and write about "Dead coming back to life").
If death is a state characterized by X, Y and Z attributes (today, and for millennia now), then the discovery of a way to revert those X, Y, Z attributes in the future doesn't mean everybody who had then in the past wasn't death.
I'd say that your argument is a nominalism inspired version of the "No True Scotsman" fallacy.
It's like as if one everybody would call a certifiably "dead person" today (e.g. a buried cadaver) is revived in 10 years due to some technological feat, someone goes to say "yes, but that was not a true dead person", moving the goalposts.
If technology is able to revive JFK in 2200, would you say JFK is not dead today?
Our definition of what's death coincided with us not being technically able to recover anyone from it. That's the reason it included "non recovery" (e.g. permanence).
Death includes a person having no brain activity, no breathing, no metabolism, no heart rate, no consciousness, etc. The permanence of those things is an accidental attribute of death, not it's fundament (that why we can say: "When you're dead, you're dead forever" or can imagine and write about "Dead coming back to life").
If death is a state characterized by X, Y and Z attributes (today, and for millennia now), then the discovery of a way to revert those X, Y, Z attributes in the future doesn't mean everybody who had then in the past wasn't death.
I'd say that your argument is a nominalism inspired version of the "No True Scotsman" fallacy.
It's like as if one everybody would call a certifiably "dead person" today (e.g. a buried cadaver) is revived in 10 years due to some technological feat, someone goes to say "yes, but that was not a true dead person", moving the goalposts.
If technology is able to revive JFK in 2200, would you say JFK is not dead today?