John Ralston Saul

There's two ways of dealing with fears of mortality. One of them is to hide, so every day you wear the same suit and go to the same job... and the other is to reinvent yourself. I think I reinvent myself all the time. The idea that I would have to be one thing for the rest of my life would just be a soul-destroying idea.

Canadian Author

Peter Hedges

When you have an intimate encounter with mortality as my family and I did with my mom's death, I took a long look at my life and I asked myself what was the one thing that I hadn't done that I had really wanted to do. And it was to write and direct a film.

American Novelist

John Cameron Mitchell

I actually came out the year that AIDS hit the front pages. So there was this mixed feeling about it - excitement that life's finally begun, but it was completely tied up with mortality and danger and politics.

American Actor

Irvin D. Yalom

From the very early days of seeing patients, I noticed that many of them seemed to be concerned with issues of their mortality, and so the philosophy training I had taken began to seem rather important to me.

American Psychologist

Gene Tunney

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.

American Athlete

L. Lionel Kendrick

May we treasure the divine gift of communication, and may we use it wisely to build and to assist others on this marvelous journey through mortality.

American Clergyman

Josie Bissett

I think with age you get wiser and understand the importance of taking care of your skin. I think you're also more aware of your mortality.

American Actress

John Tavener

I've always been aware of mortality because I've always had ill health most of my life.

British Composer

R. D. Laing

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

Scottish Psychologist

Lance Loud

I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move.

Understand mortality as a universal human condition, not just physical death.

Broad Concept

Mortality is not uniform; different groups can have varying mortality rates.

Different Rates

In medical contexts, talk of our mortality often relates to diseases and health risks.

Health Discussions

Mortality can refer to deaths from specific causes, not just the overall death rate.

Cause Specific

Mortality is frequently used in statistics to inform public policy and healthcare.

Statistical Data

Mortality in literature or philosophy explores deeper meanings of human life.

Philosophical Use

Accepting mortality is about recognizing our own finite existence.

Self-Reflection

 shows us three different stages in a demographic transition, as a country moves from a pre-industrial society to one with an industrial or post-industrial economy. Countries that have only recently begun the process of industrialization typically see an increase in life expectancy and a fall in child mortality rates

Population pyramids:...

 that there was also a great mortality of bees in Ireland. So the problems of bees today isn't necessarily something new. It has been happening since over a thousand years ago, but what we don't really notice are these problems in cities. So one thing I want to encourage you to think about

Noah Wilson-Rich: Every...

 though proper care and rehydration therapy can significantly reduce mortality rates in patients. Fortunately, while Ebola is highly virulent, several factors limit its contagiousness. Unlike viruses that proliferate through small, airborne particles, Ebola only exists in bodily fluids,

What we know (and don't...

 to securing his historical legacy because he was obsessed with his mortality. He spent his last years desperately employing alchemists and deploying expeditions in search of elixirs of life that would help him achieve immortality. And as early as the first year of his reign,

The incredible history...

 to literally killing ourselves with these habits. Obesity and smoking are among the leading preventable causes of morbidity and mortality in the world. So back to my breath. What if instead of fighting our brains, or trying to force ourselves to pay attention,

A simple way to break a...

 of maternal deaths in the developed world and are the only industrialized country with the rising maternal mortality ratio we think of ourselves as innovators and leaders in a lot of things in this country but what the statistics behind the stories are

Caring for maternal...

 are almost certainly vulnerable to coronavirus and they probably will have a higher mortality rate than humans if it gets into their population realistically we are looking at a very real chance of losing large groups even possibly species of

The Doctor Who Can...

 in every aspect from aid to trade. There's a second reason I like these development goals, and that is because each and every one is measured. Take child mortality; the aim here is to reduce child mortality

Hans Rosling: The good...

 of a parent who died, and a friend that went too soon, and bad news at the doctor. Death and mortality often live in the shadow of an affair, because they raise these questions. Is this it? Is there more?

Rethinking infidelity...

 both high degree of transmissibility and high degree of morbidity and mortality. REID If something like that spreads around the world, we're just not ready to fight it.

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