vitally challengedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

vitally challenged pl (複数形 only)

1. (humorously euphemistic) the dead; those who have died
   • 1997 June 12, Sascha LC Erni, “Tips-of-the-hat (was: Mythos - A shared world?)”, in alt.horror.cthulhu, Usenet^[1], message-ID <Pine.LNX.3.95.970612144354.13110E-100000@goblin.studi.unizh.ch>:

     imagine... 85 years old Cohen the Barbarian and his "gray horde"... death as DEATH, an antropomorphic personification, that is... meetings of the "vitally challenged (= the undead)"...

   • 1998 May 8, Dabe the Hobbit, “Re: somebody please take this necronomicon away”, in alt.necronomicon, Usenet^[2], message-ID <3552F6A5.9A96933B@pls.bris.ac.uk>:

     I blame the new hard line on welfare for driving driving^[sic] the vitally challenged onto the streets instead of leaving them in State run graveyards

   • 2006 November 26, wayne, “10 liberal lies #7”, in alt.x.y, Usenet^[3], message-ID <13343-4569CC79-1997@storefull-3358.bay.webtv.net>:

     This is the party of "vote early, vote often," where even the "vitally challenged" (the PC term for "dead people") still have the right to vote […]