critical state of the life / thousands of deaths - literally ten thousands of death.

on the verge of / on the brink of

sickness / ill, sick

(slang) abnormal, mentally ill

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

(literary, rare) by the ocean

everything

(colloquial) current boyfriend