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

: an assertion open to challenge

: 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