User blog comment:Aeratus/Guide to the Adam Jensen Clone Theory/@comment-109.146.57.194-20180326192359/@comment-175.106.50.200-20190311053735

Maybe he wasn't dead, the container seems to be specialized for preservation. Also, in the above paragraphs, there is also the hypothesis that Jensen v1 wasn't accepting memory injections well so a clone had to be used, it's possible the real jensen is comatose (though not sure why he wasn't finished off).