staying alive
- survivalRemaining alive against odds
- breathingPulmonary gas exchange
- heartbeatRhythmic cardiac contraction
- pulseArterial blood throb
- endureSuffer through without yielding
persist · subsist · cling · struggle · fight · resilience · survivor · lifeline · oxygen · rescue · escape · barely · scraped · desperate · tenacious · breath · hanging · grit
life and death
staying alivedying
Ceasing to live
death · passing away · expiring · perishing · deceased
survival and persistence
staying alivesuccumbing
Ceasing to resist
perishing · dying off · going extinct · falling victim · falling
activity and agency
staying alivegiving up the ghost
Dying or stopping permanently
letting go · fading away · slipping away · wasting away · withering