Ticket reservations in the Taipei area alone reached 20,000. After Life proved to be a hit in Taipei, Kaohsiung, Yunlin, and Taichung cinemas jumped on the bandwagon to show it. In the end, it became Taiwan best-selling locally produced film for 2004 with NT $ 10 million in box office sales, a record for a Taiwan documentary. Life was the first box office climax in the dialog between audiences and documentaries.
《生命》在台北戲院熱情延燒後，高雄、雲林、台中的戲院也紛紛加入聯映，最後創下 1000 萬台幣的票房紀錄，不僅打破歷年台灣紀錄片的紀錄，更榮登 2004 年國產影片的賣座王位，《生命》算是登上了紀錄片與觀眾透過票房對話的第一個高峰。