a living deatha life that is so unpleasant that it seems better to be dead 生不如死的生活a living death• But the hard labour for criminals which replaced judicial execution was so appalling that it was in effect a living death.• If you have opted for non-action, then you have opted for a living death.• Life without hope is a living death.• In anorexia nervosa, which becomes a living death, the same connections are prevalent, together with the same confusing implications.
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