The Dead (n.) are not simply struck down from outside: a living being carries its death within, slowly spending the store of unresolved potential it was born with until nothing is left to resolve.
The Dead (n.) become anti-individuals: dying changes a person's sign without ending the person, who goes on as an absence that is still individual.
The Dead (n.) do not exist: one can die but cannot be dead, because a corpse is no longer an individual and has no soul or unity.
The Dead (n.) leave their activity unfinished, and it stays unfinished as long as someone alive can re-actualize the seed of consciousness and action they left behind.
The Dead (n.) come back in a gait, not a portrait: Roman funeral mimes walked the dead man's walk and ticked his tics, and the mourner's own body became the urn.