Dead

Overview
This is a bit of a complicated matter. One could simply say that death (the state of being dead) is the end of life but it appears that people would like to consider alternatives to this idea: heaven, an afterlife, nirvana, etc. So, maybe for the time being we should consider death to be some sort of change in the state of one's life that may or may not mark the end of that life. Most people consider the avoidance of death to be a goal to be accomplished. To date no person seems to have ever actually accomplished this.