What people like Bishop inflict on the families of their victims is a
living death."
Evil Babes in the Wood killer's mum said: "I love him to death, he's my baby"; Sylvia Bishop had masterminded the defence that led to her son's acquittal in 1987, but 31-years-on she was nowhere to be seen as Russell Bishop was finally bought to justice
The zombie entered US consciousness through the American occupation of Haiti, the site of an eighteenth-century rebellion of the enslaved that became a war for independence, thus making the figuration of
living death inseparable from its resonances with both slavery and rebellion.
Lauro, Sarah Juliet. The Transatlantic Zombie: Slavery, Rebellion and Living Death
Drug addiction is like a
living death. It may even be better to die rather than be afflicted by drug addiction.
Drugs
For Mia Couto, storytelling not only makes us human, it resuscitates us from the
living death brought on by our baser instincts and shelters writers--and readers--from the violence and fear that dehumanize us all.
Editor's note
The siege is
living death, slowly crushing the life out of Gaza.
Hamas did not reject a ceasefire, Israel did
Many years ago, my good friend Harold Petersen taught me that when a client experiences a disability that prevents them from earning a living, it is a "
living death." It is one of the most powerful and completely accurate phrases I have ever heard.
The DI obligation
Caught between fear and hope, Kugel sees knowledge as a burden that condemns mankind, and American Jews in particular, to a kind of
living death: with knowledge (but no direct experience) of past suffering, Kugel can only expect the worst, and his obsession with death manifests itself in a collection of real and imagined last words of famous people as well as his perpetual list-making, as he keeps a running catalogue of his own pithy experiments with eulogistic one-liners along with a humorously short list of items needed in case of disaster(200).
Hope: A Tragedy
This way you don't just kill a woman and put her out of her suffering ( after all there is peace in death) but condemn her to something much worse -- a
living death, a lifetime in hell on earth.
Attacking the acid throwers
Phrases such as "the forest panted out its beefy halitosis" and "she was touching
living death, and the feel of it was bituminous, hard and soft" are both chilling and evocative, and are well-complimented by eerie allusions elsewhere.
The Home Jar
Lauro is currently writing a book, Rise Up:
Living Death, Slavery, and Rebellion, exploring the nature of zombies and society.
Zombie Fragrance A Top Seller For The Walking Dead
This book is so complete that it even details how to handle underwriting issues and includes a page about
living death, prepared by Solomon S.
"The Anatomy of Disability Income Insurance"
Even as they give artificial respiration to their predecessors, all desire this
living death, for a book is "a dead thing" that only resuscitates when "a breath of living reading ...
All at Sea: MALCOLM BULL ON JACQUES DERRIDA'S THE BEAST & THE SOVEREIGN
Jesus' death interrupts sin's vicious cycles of "reciprocal violence" (644-45), captured in K.'s phrase "living by another's death." The incarnation enables an exchange in which "the triune God takes on their
living death and draws them into God's true life" (646).
Eccentric Existence: A Theological Anthropology
Living death. The child who cries over a mark of 98 on a test because it's not 100.
Holy? Perfect? How? Living up to God's purpose for us isn't easy, but it's not impossible
When the wild oats start to turn, and the dandelions and wild barley have woven their way through the oats, making an almost impenetrable wall of
living death, you have to get out there and start hacking, cutting.
Grass cutting