Hi Serge thanks for your thoughts. I suspect we may have been on this round about before. 

Re your point 1) I think there is wide agreement that the definition of death, even medically, is harder to define that we may think. It appears you are suggesting death means "brain dead". However, for most of human history the cessation of breathing or heart failure was considered death. And some distinguish the brain from consciousness. So for you to critique my point, which was to illustrate how difficult that definition is, and to affirm that 'Turnover from atoms/cells is irrelevant' seems a little dogmatic in of itself. I suspect your hair didn't stand up on the back of your neck as Steve Grand suggested it would when you considered his analogy?

Re points 2)-5), you really seem just to be critiquing the traditional SDA position on the state of the dead - not a critique on the nuanced issues I raised. We can debate your points but it somewhat goes beyond the point I was making.