Japanese - Ask questions thread

Basically if you have a question about the language, ask it and fellow 4channers might see it and answer it for you.

To start it off. When an animate object (iru) dies, is it considered inanimate(aru)?

shi as in the word "shirei" (order, command)
mi as in "miru" (to see)

both half-width, stuck together as a single kanji.