I medically died a couple years back. I don’t remember a thing, so perhaps you are right. Still curious.

I've had procedures at the hospital two ways...

One is general anaesthesia, where you are "out"

The other is with something like fentanyl where you could have a whole conversation during the procedure, but when you finish the procedure, you don't remember it.

The experience afterwards is pretty much identical, but philosophically both seem very different.

The concept of “medically died” is kind of ridiculous. Are you alive? Then you weren’t dead.

It is a clinical term, you are arguing over semantics. Cardiopulmonary death to be specific. My point is: no one knows, not you, not me, and not my dog.

I don't know what's behind a wall I'm sitting next to right now, but I'm reasonably sure there's a street. I'm also reasonably sure the comment about "you've been dead" is also a very accurate prediction.

That wall is concrete and material. Death is not so much. I am reasonably sure you can do that with great accuracy while still having zero idea what lies in wait for us after we die. A false equivalence.

> concrete and material

Are as abstract as death. Names that we use to label certain phenomenon. You need more to demonstrate that the equivalence is false here.

"Semantics" is literally "what words mean" so yea, arguing over semantics is pretty important! Not something to dismiss.