unalive

"I thought 'if my son's gone, as in unalive, I'll close my eyes and whatever happens I'll not remember it, I'll be asleep'."

The intent was for them to appear unalive while still getting across a sense of the person they used to be.

The necrophile, however, is driven by a love for all that is dead, destroyed or decaying—or, the author believes, in a modern departure—for what is unalive and purely mechanistic….

Beltrama draws a parallel between “unalive” and how a saying like “Let’s go Brandon” has become a way to express disdain for President Biden without using the profane phrase that it’s code for.

“Unalive” refers to death by suicide or homicide.