if something causes a living thing to be dead then that something increases the amount of those living things that are dead
dead_thing is natural_inanimate_thing. dead_thing is not natural_inanimate_thing. sick_thing is living_thing. living_thing is not tangible_thing. dead_living_organism is not natural_inanimate_thing. die is tangible_thing. something_that has not died_dead die is not tangible_thing. something_that has died_dead dead_organism is not former_living_thing.