Fics like Undefinable Boundaries

It seems like there should be a very neat line, at least for humans, between dead and not dead, but I’ve seen enough messy half-alive humans to know that there is no such clear distinction. I’ve seen bodies that were still breathing despite missing part of their heads, bodies that weren’t breathing despite their owners being fully conscious. I wouldn’t call either option alive. I wouldn’t call either option dead, either. For a machine intelligence, the border is even blurrier. It's hard to say which side of it I will stand on when they're through with me.

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