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Originally Posted by Zhanteimi
Shittest thou us? "Coil" means life's troubles, not the physical body. No wonder you taught English in Japan.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_coil
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Mortal coil is a poetic term for the troubles of daily life and the strife and suffering of the world. It is used in the sense of a burden to be carried or abandoned. To "shuffle off this mortal coil" is to die, exemplified in the "To be, or not to be" soliloquy in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
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In your defense, Catholics don’t understand death. Or life.