It's hard to add risk to an already life-and-death situation.

We also witness the effects that dealing with life-and-death situations have on the paramedics.

She went to nursing school and now specialises in cardiology, seeing life-and-death situations almost daily.

When you're up all night, dealing with life-and-death situations, you get a fierce sense of your own mortality, which can lead to a 'seize the day' kind of attitude.

I suppose on the one hand it's their job, they've signed up to it, they're professional, but you're amazed how they go into life-and-death situations with such calmness and courage.

Their vacation ends up as a life-and-death struggle that's both darkly comic and surprisingly emotional.

A life-and-death struggle ensues as the men attempt to save themselves from the hungry horde.

Stunning images reveal the daily life-and-death struggles that take place in the animal kingdom.

It still seems strange to build drama on life-and-death struggles in the corporate sphere — what can a private client desire that's worth us investing our emotions in?

On the contrary, they were life-and-death struggles.