[Lazamataz]

While I find the word ‘body’ very odd in this context — body implying a corpse and not a living person — it does remind me of the use of the word ‘souls’ (such as when an airliner crashes and people say ‘there were 127 souls on board’).

[hanamizu]

‘there were 127 souls on board’

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I believe this is actually a nautical expression and refers to all humans aboard.