" All billions-of-years views place death before sin. It’s hard to overstate the importance of this. These views teach that almost as soon as living things arose, they also died. However, the first recorded death of a biblically living creature (Hebrew nephesh chayyāh64) occurred after Adam and Eve sinned, when "

― Jonathan Sarfati , The Genesis Account: A Theological, Historical, and Scientific Commentary on Genesis 1-11