So, I stumbled upon the "original" story of Pandora in a poem, Works and Days, by Hesiod (a Greek poet who lived in the 8th century BC). Both the original poem and the English translation are just charming

I'm gonna assume that you know the backstory with Prometheus and all, and start in the middle:

The story of Pandora's jar (box)

I’m torn: would I be better dead or not yet born? –

For this age is an Iron Age indeed –
Suffering never ceases for our breed:

By day, men toil; night worries them with care,
And the gods will give them troubles hard to bear.

— Hesiod's Works and Days

They don’t know ‘half’s more wholesome’ – or how well

Mallow sustains; how filling, asphodel.

— Hesiod's Works and Days

طلع حتى Hesiod قبل 2800 سنة يعرفه

خطية جان هم يركض وعشاه خبّاز

In 1968, a committee at Harvard Medical School proposed a definition that is still used today to mark the exact time of death. They identify the nonreversible loss of all brain function as being the point of death. This is characterized by loss of all electrical function and blood circulation in the brain. The logic behind this cutoff is simple: it assumes that all of the important aspects of a person—their thoughts, their memories, their personality, and their ability to control their body—is manifested in brain activity. When this is lost, the person has died.
After death, the body quickly succumbs to the forces of entropy.

The body cools over a day or two as leftover metabolic processes run their course without the proper controls. Muscles seize up in rigor mortis and then relax as all of the calcium and ATP are used up and equalized throughout the cell. Then the body quickly degrades into decay as all forms of regulation and protection are lost.

— The Machinery of Life, by David S. Goodsell

Brain death vs vegetative state vs coma vs locked-in