Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.
I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball.
It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries (aged 17).
Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.
A journey is time suspended.
We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam