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Some people think comas are easy to recover from or—conversely—a living death.
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Jan Claassen, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2022
These playful gestures feel true to the bright mischief of the material — but there are balancing shadows that are missing.
Orlando—as Woolf did—experiences overwhelming bouts of depression, nadirs of sorrow and solitude that Woolf envisions as voyages at sea, or even as periods of living death.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2024
The stillness of the soldiers and the presence of their weapons created an aura of medieval protection and a sense of living death.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2022
Joan is here to argue that such treatment is a living death.
—Chelsea Bieker, WSJ, 13 May 2022
Her fate is a living death shut up in a cave, not far from what Winston and John already suffer.
—Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2021
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Jan Claassen, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2022
These playful gestures feel true to the bright mischief of the material — but there are balancing shadows that are missing.
Orlando—as Woolf did—experiences overwhelming bouts of depression, nadirs of sorrow and solitude that Woolf envisions as voyages at sea, or even as periods of living death.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2024
The stillness of the soldiers and the presence of their weapons created an aura of medieval protection and a sense of living death.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2022
Joan is here to argue that such treatment is a living death.
—Chelsea Bieker, WSJ, 13 May 2022
Her fate is a living death shut up in a cave, not far from what Winston and John already suffer.
—Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2021
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“Living death.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/living%20death. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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