mortal coil
This bodily life
Mortal coil is a literary phrase for the turmoil and troubles of earthly life.
It comes from Shakespeare's Hamlet—"when we have shuffled off this mortal coil"—where shuffling off means dying.
The phrase now appears almost exclusively in reference to death: She shuffled off this mortal coil at ninety-three.
Outside this context, coil is archaic for commotion or fuss.
Cessation of life
- shuffle offDepart quietly, feet dragging
- releaseTo let go
- passingMoving by or temporary
- endFinal portion or cessation
departure · final rest · escape · liberation · transcendence · afterlife · beyond · grave
Animate state
- beingExisting as something
- human conditionUniversal aspects of existence
- fleshSoft body matter
- temporalityState of existing briefly
incarnation · embodiment · living · breathing · consciousness · sentience · soul · spirit
death
Cessation of life
- shuffle offDepart quietly, feet dragging
- releaseTo let go
- passingMoving by or temporary
end · departure · final rest · escape · liberation · transcendence · afterlife · beyond · grave · expiration
life
Animate state
- beingExisting as something
- human conditionUniversal aspects of existence
- fleshSoft body matter
temporality · incarnation · embodiment · living · breathing · consciousness · sentience · soul · spirit · animation
suffering
Sustained experience of distress
- turmoilViolent disturbance or confusion
- hardshipSuffering from difficult circumstances
- tribulationState of great distress
burden · struggle · strife · woe · toil · adversity · grief · anguish · affliction · sorrow
- mortalitydeath, death knell, deceased, death rate, death acceptance
- corporeal formbody, flesh, human form, physical body, bodily form
- Literary Phrasesto be or not to be, carpe diem, et tu Brute, call me Ishmael, once upon a time
- HamletHamlet, Claudius, Ophelia, Gertrude, Polonius
mortal coilafterlife
Existence beyond mortality
the great beyond · heaven · the other side · paradise · nirvana
mortal coileternal rest
Euphemism for death
eternal peace · peace · release · liberation · final rest
mortal coileternity
Boundless temporal existence
immortality · everlasting life · the eternal · timelessness · perpetuity
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