生いける屍しかばね

expression, noun

living corpse; person who is alive but lacks vitality

Figurative expression for someone who is physically alive but emotionally or spiritually dead; often used in literary or dramatic contexts.

• 彼かれは失しつ恋れんしてから生いける屍しかばねのようだ。

  He has been like a living corpse since his heart was broken.

• 戦せん争そうから帰かえってきた兵へい士したちは生いける屍しかばねだった。

  The soldiers who returned from the war were living corpses.