Peter Attia identifies four types of death: cardiovascular/pulmonary, cognitive, physical/exoskeleton, and emotional.

“in it i talk about four types of death the first one being the one that people think of cardio respiratory pulmonary death like the the what i call death certificate death but then i talk about these three other deaths cognitive death so the really the the death of the ability of the brain with respect to you know processing speed short-term memory long-term memory executive function the the physical or exoskeleton death or demise which is basically that which leaves a person in pain and unable to carry out these activities of daily living and then this emotional death”