How does a state die?

What is meant by saying that a state no longer exists? When it comes to biological Beings one can define the time (and cause) of death. The same is true for other organisations (corporations, state agencies etc.). But how does a state die? As has been established, a state is no longer legitimate when it does not perform the three information processing operations expected of it (the creation, storage and dissemination of the personal information of its citizens). A state can be legitimate but not sovereign, in the sense that it performs these three types of processing but has no control over them, that is, another state has the control (see §14.00.09). But does either of the above cases (loss of legitimacy or loss of sovereignty) mean that a state is dead, that it no longer exists?

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