Recent Examples on the WebSome people think comas are easy to recover from or—conversely—a living death.—Brian L. Edlow, Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2022 The stillness of the soldiers and the presence of their weapons created an aura of medieval protection and a sense of living death.—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2022 Joan is here to argue that such treatment is a living death.—Chelsea Bieker, WSJ, 13 May 2022 Her fate is a living death shut up in a cave, not far from what Winston and John already suffer.—Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2021
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