Well, that's at least an improvement, because then we say, look, while you're asleep, even though there's no P-functioning going on, the lack of P-functioning is temporary, so you're still alive.
这至少算是个改进，因为我们能说，看，你睡着了，即便没有任何人格功能性发生，人格功能性的缺少是暂时的，就说明你还活着。
Suppose we say then that to be alive as a person is to be able to engage in P-functioning.
假设我们说作为人而活着,就是有人格功能性。
If there are three possibilities — dead, alive, or suspended — to be dead, we could still say you've got to be broken, incapable of P-functioning.
如果有三种可能，生存，死亡或者假死-，要死亡的话，你必须是被破坏的状态，无法拥有人格功能性。
See Wanted: Saddam Hussein, Dead or Alive , ( No. 91-P 49, 12 June 1991).