Which idiom is used to describe the terminally ill and incurable?

Being terminally ill (bù bù ng rù g ā o hu ā ng) is easy to make mistakes: the disease lies in ointment blindness, and ointment: the ancients called the apical fat "ointment" and the heart and diaphragm "embarrassment". Describe the condition as very serious and incurable. Metaphor things to the point of irretrievable.

Synonym: Human life is shallow, dying and hopeless.