What rabbi?
Sorry I can't remember the rabbi's name...I heard it on the Dennis Prager Show last year. What a profound statement I thought.
"I heard a rabbi explain it like this. "If there is no breath, there is no life"
I wonder if the rabbi had this scripture in mind "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living being" Gen 2:7
So when the breathing stops then life ends according to this verse.