Consider the following sentences:
- We ourselves don't know whether we'll be alive in the next minute.
- We ourselves don't know whether we'll be alive in next minute.
- We ourselves don't know whether we'll be alive next minute.
Out of these three, which one will used by a native speaker? I'm not sure which is grammatically correct. I think the first one is correct, but I'm not sure about that. It's for spoken English, not written English.
The context is simple: A few friends are stuck in a bad situation (or place) and anyone can die at any time. So one guy says the above statement.