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It's hardly pedantry. Either you have the right to live or you don't. Life or death is about the most binary thing you can get.
And in this case, there isn't any actual right to be alive, because there is no such thing as positive rights. This is the opposite of leftist ideals because they only recognize positive rights and not negative rights.
You just completely ignored the idea of the right to life being the right to make a living and pursue what you want to do with your life to make some pedantic point about death.
Also the idea that you have the right to your own life and nobody has the right to take that from you without due process is a negative right.
Because your idea of said right is false, since it would empower theft as legitimate.
And yes, it is a negative right, that's the idea here. But you don't have the right to your own life, just the right to not be deprived of it. The first part would create a positive right. If you compel any action of another, it's not a right.
That's a distinction without a difference. If I have the right to not be deprived of life without due process, I have the right to life.
You just said the same thing couched in new age bullshit.
But you don't. You have the right to not be unjustly deprived of your life. You don't have a right to survival at any cost.
Those are meaningful differences. Claiming you have a right to be alive places a burden of action on others, making it a so called positive right, ie not a right at all.