Recently I have been asked this question.
This has made me ponder. As you know only dead people do not perspire… If this question has been asked, if it concerns somebody including me and if my feelings give rise to new thoughts then he is rather alive. From the perspective of the doctor stating the facts of the patients being discontent of the quality of the medical care provided he may be dead!
But as the woman cannot be just a little bit pregnant then a person cannot be half or partly alive or dead. Besides ...