An overwhelming desire for life made the hands clench the lifeline as if rigor mortis had already set in.
A rope called a lifeline was thrown from a boat so that this man might save himself from drowning by clinging to the rope. Because this man wanted very much to live, he grasped the lifeline very tightly with his hands, holding the rope so very tightly that you might think he was experiencing a condition called rigor mortis, in which the muscles become so rigid after a person dies that they cannot be moved. CJ
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A rope called a lifeline was thrown from a boat so that this man might save himself from drowning by clinging to the rope. Because this man wanted very much to live, he grasped the lifeline very tightly with his hands, holding the rope so very tightly that you might think he was experiencing a condition called rigor mortis, in which the muscles become so rigid after a person dies that they