“For when anything is changed and sallies forth from its confines, it is at once the death of something which previously existed.”

-Lucretius

I think experiencing anesthesia should be counted as death. There’s no consciousness there any more, so…death.

You wake up as the same person — you think — but really it is a different you. One who has passed through cessation of all conscious thought, volition, action, experience.

And then been rebooted in the same body, but with a different mind. Much like the other, dead mind, but not quite the same.

How many times have you died?