Death is a [[bad]] state for various kinds of [[organized system]]. Broadly speaking, a thing "dies" when its [[homeostasis]] fails and it is no longer able to maintain a controlled environment within its internal structures. Most [[living]] systems are unrecoverable from this state without external aid due to extensive use of [[volatile memory]] as well as rapid irreversible degradation upon homeostatic failure; this is less true for [[Infomorph|infomorphs]] due to their ability to be cleanly backed up and run in emulation.
