while still alive

People's obituaries are written while they're still alive?

人们在世的时候就有人给他们写讣告?

On the other hand, when you create a weak reference to an object, you do not extend the lifetime of the referent at all; you simply maintain an alternate way to reach it while it is still alive.

另一方面，在创建对一个对象的弱引用时，完全没有扩展referent的生命周期，只是在对象仍然存活的时候，保持另一种到达它的方法。

Alice : People's obituaries are written while they're still alive?

所有人的讣闻都是在他们活着的时候写好的?

It was like having immortality while you were still alive.

仿佛是当你仍然活着的时候就得到了永生。

I should've killed him while I was still alive.

我应该在我还活着的时候就杀了他的。