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Comm. NT: 17.
Nirodhasamāpattikathāvaṇṇanā

‘Vital formations’ are the same as life span;
though some say that they are the life span, heat and consciousness. These are the object only of his normal consciousness.
There is no death during cessation because dying takes place by means of the final life-continuum [consciousness].
He should attain only after adverting thus, ‘Let sudden death not occur.’
For in the case of sudden death he would not be able to declare final knowledge, advise the bhikkhus, and testify to the Dispensation’s power. And there would be no reaching the highest path in the case of a non-returner.

пали	Antonirodhe maraṇassa natthitāya antarāva samāpattito vuṭṭhāti.
Nyanamoli thera	because there is no dying during cessation,17 he consequently emerges from the attainment meanwhile.