"As the organized system (life) dies, it's own entropy increases and there is all that extra entropy left behind by its long life.
~Samwik"

That's probably true, but more to the point, the entire system of which we are a part (i.e. US plus the environment) is continually increasing in entropy, even though we ourselves might constitute a net decrease. That doesn't violate 2LOT because we are not isolated systems.