No.. we kept pretty close track of what happened after a person died.

[And ran experiments on it. There was no mystery about death itself, but those escaping hearts...

Well, now's not the time for that.]

I'm certainly not dead. And you're hardly dead as well. The dead don't breathe, eat, drink, sleep, stand around in bars competing over who has the best drinks, and so on. I am certain if I took out a needle and pricked your skin, you would also bleed unless you're wildly different in some fashion from my own shinki, which I doubt.