You have two deaths for all things death of essence and death of form for example our friend the pen A, B and C

A. Complete pen (see parameters above)
B. Same Pen Empty (ink is gone)
C. Plastic pellets

Pen in b state is death of essence it cant write anymore so it is less then A but it is still a pen. No information can be collected at this point relative to the object itself, you cant for example determine if pen B is as smooth to write with as a living pen A. Such an evaluation is good for determining the life expectancy of an object. Depending on the intent how short or long that expectancy is can be used to gauge only that aspect of its perfection. More often that not the fact that it has ceased function means the object itself was imperfect. For example the human race species - intent - continue forever to pass on the genetic sequance of DNA that produces human - human race ceases to exist failure to accomplish intent as a species we were not perfect.

Plastic pellets now you have death of form or complete death in which no correlation can be drawn between A and C because A has ceased to exist.

an object that dies (typically) is imperfect an object that doesnt die well death cant be used to evaloute such a thing - conclusion nothing can ever be deemed to be perfect