life preservation
Preventing someone's death
Life preservation is the protection or maintenance of life, especially human life.
The term appears most often in contexts of emergency equipment and safety protocols: life preservation gear, life preservation training.
It encompasses both the instinct for self-preservation and organized efforts to prevent death—rescue operations, medical intervention, survival techniques.
The coast guard's primary mission is life preservation.
- survivalRemaining alive against odds
- rescueSave from harm
- search and rescueFinding and saving people
- first respondersPersonnel arriving at emergencies initially
- lifeboatEmergency vessel for survivors
first aid · CPR · emergency · emergency services · shelter · oxygen · heartbeat · breathing · safeguard · protection · instinct · pulse · drowning · mouth to mouth · resuscitation · tourniquet · defibrillator · lifeguard
life preservationkilling
Causing death deliberately
murder · extermination · slaughter · homicide · annihilation
life preservationneglect
Failure to provide care
abandonment · indifference · dereliction · reckless endangerment · carelessness
life preservationeuthanasia
Deliberate death for relief
assisted suicide · mercy killing · active euthanasia · withdrawal of care · do not resuscitate
life, preservation, live, lives, lived, living, lively, liveliness, lifelong