Death is too harsh a term for it, but I don't know if you could call it living.

[She remembers painfully well how Aoi moved and spoke, more like a hollow doll than a person. Rin loved her mother anyways, but she knows it would have been kinder if her suffering hadn't been prolonged, and she had simply died back then.]

But by the opposite token, if someone was resuscitated with no ill effects, you're saying you wouldn't call it a death? Despite the fact a death definitely took place, by your definition it would be voided so long as the victim could continue their lives normally.