# Do you think people can actually 'cling to life'?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-people-can-actually-cling-to-life/706736>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 9, 2014, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-people-can-actually-cling-to-life/706736 "2014-12-09T06:05:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2014, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-people-can-actually-cling-to-life/706736/21 "2014-12-11T06:36:47Z")

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> [@Chief\_Pedant](#):
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> But no, you can’t cling to life in the sense of willing your physiology to any significant extent.

How do you account for the academic studies I linked to above then?

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