One of our kind — a being with a body, a history and an end. In this house the word is used carefully, because it has been used to decide who counted.
Latin humanus (human, humane, of man), from homo (a human being), ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European root for earth — a human is etymologically an earthling, a creature of the ground.
A word used carefully here, because it has been used elsewhere to decide who counted — kept for what a body, a history, and an end actually name, not for a boundary of worth.