claim someone's life

:  to ask for especially as a right

:  to call for :  require

:  take

:  a demand for something due or believed to be due

:  a right to something

:  a title to a debt, privilege, or other thing in the possession of another

:  some person :  somebody

:  the quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a dead body

:  a principle or force that is considered to underlie the distinctive quality of animate beings

:  an organismic state characterized by capacity for metabolism (see metabolism 1), growth, reaction to stimuli, and reproduction

:  of or relating to animate being

:  lifelong

:  using a living model