Disclaimer: this is purposefully obtuse.

Other effects in the game which explicitly state they kill you:

Shadows, succubi, massive damage, death saving throws, beholder death ray (notably not even their disintegration ray kills you), power word kill, vampires, mind flayers, night hags, drow inquisitors.

Clearly, if they intended for disintegration to kill you, they’d have said so. Since specific overrides general, and there is no general rule that disintegrated creatures are dead, I rest my case. QED.

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    14 hours ago

    Do they need to define dictionary words? You are incapacitated, you don’t have capacity to do that.

    The lack of qualification indicates you are completely incapacitated and have no capacity to do or say anything.