Life Course

Roles: person, life-stage, purpose, choice, difficulty, progress, setback, death

The trajectory of a human life from birth to death, encompassing the choices, stages, difficulties, relationships, and purposes that constitute a biography. As a target domain, life is one of the most heavily metaphorized concepts in any language — we understand it through journeys, stories, games, battles, and seasons because its full span exceeds any single experience.