No, death occurs when the vital functuns can no longer be preformed.
The cause of death can differ from person to person.
influenza
In Chicago 1918, he was dying of Spainsh Influenza
Spanis Influenza
It depends what the person (or animal or plant) is dying of, on the individual circumstances, and where you consider the process of death to begin. It could be argued that if a person is alive one moment, and then unalive the next, that the actual process of dying is but an instant.
Edward Cullen formerly Edward Masen was dying of the Spanish Influenza when Carlise Cullen found him in a ward with the dying and changed him into a vampire
It was the Influenza flu epidemic (Spanish Influenza, for you non spanish speaking peeps)
they keep dying
Edward was changed in Chicago where Carlisle was working in the hospital at the time. He was dying of the spanish influenza in 1918.
He was born in Chicago in 1901, and then in 1918 he was dying of Spanish Influenza, so Carlisle changed him.
A Thanatologist studies the actual process of death and dying.
Rosalie had been hurt badly by her husband Carlisle found her lying on the street dying he took her home and changed her into a vampire.
The word 'dying' is the gerund form of the verb to die, a verbal noun.The noun dying is an abstract noun as a word for the process of passing from life or ceasing to be.