Answer:
You get many of me, but never enough. After the last one, your life soon will snuff. You may have one of me but one day a year, When the last one is gone, your life disappears.
This is needed both for courage and hardcover books.
A morbidly-named body of water
A hill full, a hole full; yet you cannot catch a bowl full. What is it?
There are 30 cows and 28 chickens. How many didn't?
Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it. But almost nobody takes it.