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You can't say you died at your prime unless you died when you were 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, 97, 101, 103, 107, 109, or 113.
You also can't say you died at your prime if you died in any of those years, since speaking is generally accepted to involve the vibration of air particles, and dying is generally accepted to divest one of the ability to vibrate air particles.
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Prime here refers to quality, rather than the literal title for a subject in mathematics. As in, A Prime Moment. Your joke hinges on essentially replacing one subject with another simply because they share a name. Your pedantry falls short, good sir.
...To whit, Technically, in my own experience mortals seem to refer to death as less of an actual concept or substantial thing & more of a mere cessation of certain aspects, but not a whole. For, after all, I have yet to hear a distinct summation of what the exact moment of Death is. When one says "died in your prime" it is intoned to be the cessation of merely a few discernible acts, not total cessation in said specimen. Therefore, more focus ought be placed on the former half of the phrase rather than the latter.
You certainly can, technically, say you have died at an earlier time because, metaphorically, you are not intoning what died.
Hence mine own phrase: Die Constantly! Live intermittent.
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Actually, the 'prime' as used in mathematics also refers to quality, hence the word-substitution is not merely homonymous but one that carries over to the surface-level definition of the punned terms too. My pedantry may fall short, but yours didn't so much as get high enough to fall at all.
Death would be far less of a mystery if people ever bothered to come back to let us know what was on the other side. Quite a breach of basic etiquette there, methinks.