Or, as the article you linked makes very clear indeed, NOT dead.
To be clear, being kept alive for nefarious purposes = not dead.
Its a fairly cut and dried state of being this whole 'life' thing if one discounts the philosophical and concentrates on the physiological, as i understand the deathlist is in favour of doing.
So he joins Ariel Sharon as one of the slabbers with vital signs, then. Still think he'll check out before Sharon, and probs in a matter of weeks. Jan 1st or thereafter would be too much to hope for amongst those of us who didn't pick him this year, right?