"vitally challenged" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1997 June 12, Sascha LC Erni, “Tips-of-the-hat (was: Mythos - A shared world?)”, in alt.horror.cthulhu (Usenet), message-ID <Pine.LNX.3.95.970612144354.13110E-100000@goblin.studi.unizh.ch>",
          "text": "imagine... 85 years old Cohen the Barbarian and his \"gray horde\"... death as DEATH, an antropomorphic personification, that is... meetings of the \"vitally challenged (= the undead)\"...",
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          "ref": "1998 May 8, Dabe the Hobbit, “Re: somebody please take this necronomicon away”, in alt.necronomicon (Usenet), message-ID <3552F6A5.9A96933B@pls.bris.ac.uk>",
          "text": "I blame the new hard line on welfare for driving driving the vitally challenged onto the streets instead of leaving them in State run graveyards",
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          "ref": "2006 November 26, wayne, “10 liberal lies #7”, in alt.x.y (Usenet), message-ID <13343-4569CC79-1997@storefull-3358.bay.webtv.net>",
          "text": "This is the party of \"vote early, vote often,\" where even the \"vitally challenged\" (the PC term for \"dead people\") still have the right to vote […]",
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          "text": "imagine... 85 years old Cohen the Barbarian and his \"gray horde\"... death as DEATH, an antropomorphic personification, that is... meetings of the \"vitally challenged (= the undead)\"...",
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