And our Rebbe lives on. He isn’t a dead man. first of all tzaddikim bimisosom kruim chayim and even when they leave this world, they continue to send down hashpoah and bracha to their mekusharim.
That’s any tzadik. If I read rashi today, Rashi himself says the words with me
That’s what sechel and his friends would say.
I would say (im as mainstream as they get, and I grew up in a more anti home, and yes, I went to the kinus last year.) that the Rebbe lives on more than that as people continue to get brachos from the Rebbe pertaining to their gashmius as well as Ruchnius. Usually, once a tzadik has passed on, he loses his connection to the physicality of this world. That as well as other proofs (shmos Chof vov specifically) lead me to think by a Torah logic, that the Rebbe is alive, which is why I haven’t addressed the dead man claim.) so yeah either way it works.