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Of course not. But the definition of death you gave, doesn't distinguish between forms of life.
The conversation is about human death. The question is at what point is a human being considered dead. If cellular function is brought into it, then a rotting corpse is teeming with bacterial life.
You are right that biological functions of the human body can continue well past the point that someone would be broadly considered dead. I just think that a lack of brain function is a good classification of when to consider that someone has died.
The conversation is about what makes a "corpse".
If the brain dead body still performs the majority of its biological functions, that's not really a corpse.