thanks to thesaurus.com (link) i am mesmerized by all the different words there are to describe death...or being dead.
asleep | beret of life | breathless | buried | cadaverous | checked out | cold | cut off | erased | expired | extinct | inanimate | inert | lifeless | liquidated | mortified | offed | perished | reposing | spiritless | stiff | wasted |
etc;
fascinating.