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Another bit of possible foreshadowing

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forumghost:
Sounds like a confirmation to me "Death is a spectrum, not a line" ie: You were dead, but dead doesn't work how you thought so you could come back.

wardenferry419:
I agree that, in the Dresdenverse, Death is a spectrum. Curious question, what would represent the polar ends? As in, what is most alive and what is most dead?

Fcrate:

--- Quote from: forumghost on October 12, 2018, 04:32:08 AM ---Sounds like a confirmation to me "Death is a spectrum, not a line" ie: You were dead, but dead doesn't work how you thought so you could come back.

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The way I understood that quote was that "We all lie somewhere on the spectrum of death. Dresden came close to the end, but not close enough that Mab couldn't bring him back to the norm." i.e: He didn't really die.

morriswalters:
There is no internally consistent answer to that in the Dresdenverse.  Other than to say that your dead when JB says you are.  JB is selling the idea that what makes you, you, is separate from the body.  So are we talking about the death of the body or the death of the soul?

For Harry, obviously his body didn't decompose, which is an indicator that it didn't die.  And in point of fact it was healed.  That is, he no longer has a chest wound, when he awakes in the well.  And if you believe the timeline he didn't leave his body until it was healed.  How much time elapsed before he woke in Chicago over Chicago?

I'll grant you that is a long time to heal, but JB needed that time.  It might have been more fun if JB had played with an alternate timeline  where Harry's death was final.  Kinda like Scrooges ghost.

Mr. Death:
His soul separated from his body. His body would have decomposed if three extremely powerful supernatural forces hadn't kept it alive in only the most technical, purely mechanical sense.

He was shot and his body stopped functioning. He lost the ability to continue functioning. His heart stopped. He had no brain activity, otherwise he wouldn't have needed Mab, Demonreach and Bonnie to do it manually for him.

He was dead. His soul just didn't move on yet and definitely could have if he'd wanted to.

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