in the land of the living alive or awake. humorous
☞ This is a biblical idiom: see, for example, Job 28:13: 'Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living' or Psalms 52:5: 'God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living'.