In the news you constantly hear about gravely hurt people in the hospital "fighting for their life." The turn of phrase I find a bit odd. Most of the people hurt enough to be fighting for their life at the hospital are simply laying in a bed unconscious.
But when it comes to news, it gives the person reporting the story something to say. Laying in a bed unconscious isn't very heroic of an activity. For all of medicine and the recuperative power that a body has, a body is going to do what it's going to do. That is, either repair itself or expire. Everyone will shuffle off this mortal coil, and some passings are tragic and too soon. But no person in a coma, hooked to machines to stop the body from naturally failing, is really fighting for their life.
Bodies fail. Whether it's quick or protracted, it comes down to death and taxes.
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