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

>>583
Unless there's some kind of special conjugation exception going on in the "ai" case, I'm pretty sure that plain "aishite" is the -te form of "aisuru", which makes me wonder where the extra "-ru" comes from. I've also seen the expression written as "aishite'ru", and the textbooks tell me that the te-form must be linked to something else to complete a meaning/sentence.