cradle-to-grave

Adjective

 * 1)  Spanning an entire lifetime, from birth to death.
 * 2) * 2010, Mungo MacCallum, The Monthly, April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 28:
 * Politics should be a cradle-to-grave calling: anything else is mere distraction.
 * Politics should be a cradle-to-grave calling: anything else is mere distraction.