pre-dead

adjective4

1. •
   Not yet dead.
2. •
   Alive

   • Then the man told Mamet what he fed the anaconda: "pre-dead chickens." — 1984
3. •
   Dying; moribund; terminally ill.

   • Garbage removal in and around private pre-dead rats initially low. — 1969
4. •
   Doomed to die soon;

   • he had enough time to marry and rear children, but that given statistics and his lengthy family history, life beyond 45 seemed unlikely. After 40, he began to view his life as "pre-dead." — 1994