kill doesn't actually terminate the ghost proc

Question

In order to terminate the ghost process (process which hasn't terminated properly and hence it still pending to be killed) I used the

kill -9 <process-id>

At times it works perfectly, and when I check the process after killing it, it is gone

ps -aux | grep python

However, surprisingly, now I am able to see the ghost process even after the kill command. What's the problem?

In the image above, I tried to kill the process with id 23756 but it still appears in ps aux

Referring to my answer to previous question of Visual Studio ghost process

VSCode kill running processes

Answer 1

Looks like, I had to close the debug process that was still incomplete. Basically, killing the application or closing the debug or something on those lines, helps you to terminate the ghost process.