OnTriggerEnter2D is triggering when objects do not collide

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So I have a player that needs to pass through the enemy and still have a life taken away. I cannot use OnCollision because then the physics of the enemy is transferred to the player. While I am playing lives are being taken away even though my player does not collide with my enemy. I have the enemy tagged to take a life away and i checked that no other objects contain this tag. Any help is appreciated. Attached is my GameOver script which really just takes a life.

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;
using UnityEngine.UI;


public class GameOver : MonoBehaviour
{

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    public Rigidbody2D rb;
    public LifeManager lifeSystem;
    public GameObject GameOverScreen;
    public float waitAfterGameOver;
   

    void Start()
    {
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
        lifeSystem = FindObjectOfType<LifeManager>();
        
        

    }
    public void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D trigger)
    {

        if (trigger.gameObject.tag == "Ghost")
        {
            lifeSystem.TakeLife();


        }
        if (GameOverScreen.activeSelf)
        { waitAfterGameOver -= Time.deltaTime; }


    }
2

It doesn’t look like there is any OnTriggerExit2D event, so basically when you are outside of the ghost you stop taking life.

public void OnTriggerExit2D(Collider2D trigger)
{
if (trigger.gameObject.tag == "Ghost")
     {
          StopTakingDamage();
     }
}

Depending on how you have your damage system setup, something like this would work; you might just need to have a bool that defines if you should or shouldn’t be taking damage.

Right after posting this I realized you could change the OnTriggerEnter to OnTriggerStay, and that would eliminate the need for the extra exit lines of code for the exit event.