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Life support
Life support: medical procedures that replace or support failing organs, including mechanical ventilation, CPR, tube feeding, dialysis, and ECMO (first successful 1971, Robert Bartlett). Covers history, limits, and withdrawal decisions.
Life Support (Madison Beer album)
Life Support is Madison Beer's debut studio album, released February 26, 2021 on Epic/Access Records: 17 tracks, no features, co-written and co-produced by Beer with Leroy Clampitt, exploring her borderline personality disorder diagnosis, heartbreak, and mental health.
Life table
A life table, also called a mortality table or actuarial table, is a statistical table describing a population's mortality by age, showing death probabilities, survivors, and remaining life expectancy.
Life thru a Lens
Life thru a Lens is Robbie Williams' 1997 debut solo album on Chrysalis, written with Guy Chambers and produced by Steve Power. It entered the UK chart at No. 11, reached No. 1 after "Angels", and is 8x Platinum BPI.
LIFE trial
LIFE trial (Lifestyle Interventions and Independence for Elders, NCT01072500): Phase 3 US randomized trial of 1,635 sedentary adults aged 70-89; structured physical activity reduced major mobility disability (30.1% vs 35.5%, HR 0.82) versus health education, with null cognitive and fall-injury results.
Life Unexpected
Life Unexpected is a CW family drama (2010–2011) created by Liz Tigelaar, starring Shiri Appleby, Kristoffer Polaha, and Britt Robertson as a foster teen who finds her birth parents in Portland; 26 episodes, canceled after two seasons.
Life unworthy of life
Life unworthy of life (Lebensunwertes Leben) was the Nazi designation, from the 1920 Binding-Hoche tract, for disabled people deemed a genetic and financial burden; it underpinned sterilization of 400,000 Germans and the T4 "euthanasia" murder of roughly 250,000 to 300,000 patients.
Life with Derek
Life with Derek is a Canadian teen sitcom (2005-2009, 70 episodes) created by Daphne Ballon for Family Channel and aired on Disney Channel in the US, starring Michael Seater and Ashley Leggat as rival step-siblings in a blended family, later spun off into Vacation with Derek and Life with Luca.
Life with Louie
Life with Louie, Fox animated series (1994–1998) created by and starring comedian Louie Anderson, based on his childhood; also known as Life With Louie. Three seasons, 39 episodes, two Emmys, three Humanitas Prizes, set in fictional Cedar Knoll, Wisconsin.
Life-cycle assessment
Life-cycle assessment (LCA), also called life cycle analysis or cradle-to-grave analysis, is a method for evaluating a product's environmental impacts from raw material extraction through disposal.
Life-cycle cost analysis
Life-cycle cost analysis (LCCA) is an economic method that totals an asset's acquisition, operating, maintenance, and disposal costs over its life, discounted to present value for comparing alternatives.
Life-cycle costing
Life-cycle costing (LCC) is an economic appraisal method that sums an asset's acquisition, operating, maintenance, and end-of-life costs, discounted to present value, allowing fair comparison of alternatives with different spending profiles.
Life-Size
Life-Size is a 2000 ABC Wonderful World of Disney TV movie directed by Mark Rosman, starring Tyra Banks as living doll Eve and Lindsay Lohan as Casey; it spawned Life-Size 2 (2018, Freeform) and joined Disney+ in 2025.
Life-support system
A life-support system, also called an Environmental Control and Life Support System, keeps humans alive where the environment cannot, providing oxygen, removing carbon dioxide, and managing water, waste, pressure, and temperature.
Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness
Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An Almost History of America (2026) is a seven-episode HBO sketch comedy limited series by Larry David and Jeff Schaffer, Higher Ground-produced, airing June 26 to August 7, 2026.
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness is the famous rights triad from the second paragraph of the US Declaration of Independence (1776), drafted by Thomas Jefferson, who substituted it for Locke's property, with contested meanings and a lasting legal afterlife.
Life: A User's Manual
Life: A User's Manual (La Vie mode d'emploi) is a 1978 novel by French writer Georges Perec, winner of the prix Médicis, interweaving the stories of the inhabitants of a fictitious Parisian apartment building.
Life's Been Good
Life's Been Good is a 1978 satirical rock song by Joe Walsh from But Seriously, Folks..., produced by Bill Szymczyk, peaking at number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and now a classic-rock and Eagles live staple.
Life360
Life360 is a freemium family location-sharing and safety app launched in 2008 by Chris Hulls and run from the San Francisco Bay Area, with about 95.8 million monthly users.
Lifeboat (1944 film)
Lifeboat (1944) is Alfred Hitchcock's Twentieth Century-Fox survival drama, from a John Steinbeck story, set entirely on a lifeboat with Tallulah Bankhead, Walter Slezak, and Canada Lee; three Oscar nominations, box-office failure, later reappraised.
Lifeboat (shipboard)
A shipboard lifeboat is a rigid survival craft carried on a ship's deck to evacuate crew and passengers in an emergency, regulated under the SOLAS convention.
Lifeboats of the Titanic
The lifeboats of the Titanic were the 20 boats carried on RMS Titanic, with capacity for only 1,178 of the roughly 2,200 people aboard when she sank in 1912.
Lifebuoy (soap)
Lifebuoy (soap): Unilever hygiene brand, launched 1894 by Lever Brothers as a carbolic disinfectant soap; red bar, €1 billion brand, Mumbai trial showed 25% fewer diarrhoea episodes.
Lifeforce (film)
Lifeforce is a 1985 British science fiction horror film directed by Tobe Hooper, loosely adapted from Colin Wilson's novel The Space Vampires, about space vampires attacking London.
LifeHack (film)
LifeHack is a 2025 British screenlife cyber-heist thriller, Ronan Corrigan's feature debut, starring Georgie Farmer and Yasmin Finney as teen hackers who rob a crypto billionaire and are blackmailed by his daughter. Premiered at SXSW 2025; released in US theaters May 15, 2026 and on Netflix US September 23, 2026.
Lifehouse (band)
Lifehouse (band), also known early on as Blyss, is an American alternative rock band from Los Angeles led by Jason Wade, known for "Hanging by a Moment" (2001 year-end Hot 100 #1) and "You and Me," distinct from The Who's Lifehouse project.
Lifeline
Lifeline (2017) is an American sci-fi thriller web series, also known as a YouTube Red Original, created by Ben Freiburger and Grant Wheeler and executive produced by Dwayne Johnson. Eight 25-minute episodes follow insurance agents who jump 33 days forward in time to prevent clients' deaths; one-way time travel is its distinguishing rule.
Lifeline (2025 film)
Lifeline (2025) is an American mystery thriller directed by Feras Alfuqaha, starring Josh Stewart as a suicide hotline operator called by someone claiming to be his younger self; released February 21, 2025 by Dark Sky Films. Other 2025 works share the title.
Lifeline (十万火急) (1997 film)
Lifeline (十萬火急, Shi wan huo ji) is Johnnie To's 1997 Hong Kong firefighter drama starring Lau Ching-wan, described as the first Chinese-language firefighter film, shot with real fire, earning HK$20.76 million and two Hong Kong Film Awards.
Lifeline Ventures
Lifeline Ventures is a Helsinki-based venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Timo Ahopelto and Petteri Koponen, known as a pre-seed and seed investor in Supercell, Wolt, Oura, and ICEYE.