performativity, n.All

You technically can't 'die' flying on an airplane. Most flights don't have staff who are qualified to pronounce someone dead. The body has to be declared dead upon landing.

Performativity is that power of discourse to produce the phenomena that it regulates and constrains.

A knight is a knight merely by virtue of being knighted by a king or queen

Performativity is grounded in the idea that if one acts the part, one becomes the part.