  In this paper we are interested in the upper bound of the lifespan estimate
for the compressible Euler system with time dependent damping and small initial
perturbations. We employ some techniques from the blow-up study of nonlinear
wave equations. The novelty consists in the introduction of tools from the
Orlicz spaces theory to handle the nonlinear term emerging from the pressure $p
\equiv p(\rho)$, which admits different asymptotic behavior for large and small
values of $\rho-1$, being $\rho$ the density. Hence we can establish, in high
dimensions $n\in\{2,3\}$, unified upper bounds of the lifespan estimate
depending only on the dimension $n$ and on the damping strength, and
independent of the adiabatic index $\gamma>1$. We conjecture our results to be
optimal. The method employed here not only improves the known upper bounds of
the lifespan for $n\in\{2,3\}$, but has potential application in the study of
related problems.
