This kind of "deadabase" presents all the characteristics of a perfect database:
One could say that the primary cause of death is life. Not very subtle reasoning indeed. Anyway the answer to this question is far from obvious. Concerning Hemingway, for example, what is the cause of his death ? Alcohol ? Electroshoks ? Possible Poisoning ? To sum up, let's say that we have to face both incertainty of facts and incertainty of chain of causes and consequences. Discombobulation sometimes. There is a third problem: How to manage the classification of causes. Infection (lungs), oedema, emphysema... I'm not a doctor Since there is obviously no absolute perfect method of classification, let's say that I just do my best...
That would be no problem at all. The system need to be fed regularly by the administrator. If it once comes up with no feeding for more than two months, the system will notice it and automatically decide that the late administrator died two months ago. An entry would be created with this date
The date would be subject to doubt, since the death could have occured at any moment during these two months. But, after all, every date in this deadabase is dubious and the entire project is weird, so...
In the eventuality of just a coma, the administrator would erase the erroneous entry as soon as possible, and apology for that.
Death penalty is one particular kind of assasination. It is different from the other forms of murder, by the fact that the murderer is the society itself. That is even worse.
It is a murder even though most part of people think the condemned person deserves it.
Info comes essentially from http://www.wikipedia.org or pages like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2012
Info is cross checked over different languages