Existing or occurring before death, relating to the period preceding someone's death.
From 'ante-' (before) + 'mortalis' (subject to death, from Latin 'mors' meaning death). A technical term used in medical and legal contexts.
Legal systems use 'antemortal' to describe evidence of what happened before someone died—it's the crucial difference between what you know *while living* versus what someone claims happened after death.
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