Sentence examples for while you were alive from inspiring English sources

"How can you be sure that the charity continues to be operated in the fashion that you were used to while you were alive?

Especially among the less well educated, groups based on kinship and descent — tribes and their various subsets (subtribes, clans) — provide both a social network and a safety net: members of your group will get you a job or help you if you have money problems or mourn you when you die even if they didn't like you much while you were alive.

One drawback with giving through a life insurance policy — as opposed to giving while you are alive — is the possible lack of control over how the money is spent.

You're alive while you're alive.

While you are alive, you are the trust's beneficiary.

I think you are dead while you are alive, Mister Journalist.

"I think you are dead while you are alive," he said.

"Not having any passion while you're alive, that's the terrible thing.

"You won't get out of it while you're alive," he said.

Posthumously, this is a great honour but, while you're alive, oddly intrusive and melancholy".

But I don't -- I don't think you can really define your position in history while you are alive.