Definition of "life-sustaining" []

• Being the seat or source of life; performing a necessary function in the living body. (adjective)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "I urge anyone going through a divorce to build a life-sustaining support system."
• "In late December, The New York Times reported that under new Medicare regulations for annual physical examination, "the government will pay doctors who advise patients on options for end-of-life care, which may include advance directives to forgo aggressive life-sustaining treatment.""
• "God did not promise that the atmosphere will forever be healthy and life-sustaining."