“Everyone else's life” vs “... else's lives”

Solution 1:

Everyone else's life would be correct. In this case everyone is a singular pronoun. (See this explanation of everyone being singular.) Else is just a determiner used after everyone.

Allow me a digression that I think you might find helpful when thinking about whether to use life or lives in similar sorts of construction. The most memorable explanation of whether to use a plural or singular word that I've ever encountered comes from the book Words Into Type (p. 357). Under the heading and subheadings of Nouns, Number, Singular with a plural possessive there is this clear explanation:

To avoid ambiguity a singular noun is often used with a plural possessive when only one of the things possessed could belong to each individual.

  • Manufacturing helps many people in the smaller cities to earn their living.

  • Forbes knew most of them by their first name.

  • Some of them could not pay their rent.

  • They eyed each other furtively and cursed beneath their breath.

Similarly:

  • Think of the last name of five pupils in the room.

  • The steam line ruptured, causing the death of seven longshoremen.

  • They doubled their efforts to discover the identity of two men who struck a man with their automobile and then fled.

Care must be taken not to apply the rule to the wrong noun.

Wrong: It is pretty clear that the smile on the face of the delegates, whenever they look at each other, is not a sincere one.

Right: ...on the faces of the delegates ... [ Smile is the noun the rule applies to.]