“The fanatics have another name for fetuses. They call them the pre-born.”

Now we're getting creative. If you accept pre-born, I think you would have to say that, at the moment of birth, we go instantly from being pre-born to being pre-dead. Makes sense, doesn't it? Technically, we're all pre-dead.
Source: Books, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? (2004), p. 162

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