From the NannyMUD documentation

LAST CHANGE

2000-12-11

FUNCTION

NAME
        living - determine if an object is living


SYNTAX
	int living(object ob)

DESCRIPTION
	This function returns 1 if the specified object `ob' is	living and 0
	otherwise. This is really only a check if enable_commands has been
	done on the object; you might want to check the result of query_living
	instead.


SEE ALSO
        enable_commands in efun/object_related/enable_commands


SEE ALSO
        disable_commands in efun/object_related/disable_commands


SEE ALSO
        query_living in lfun/living/query_living