Definition of Mortality

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Mortality

The condition or quality of being mortal; subjection to death or to the necessity of dying.

Human life; the life of a mortal being.

Those who are, or that which is, mortal; the human cace; humanity; human nature.

Death; destruction.

The whole sum or number of deaths in a given time or a given community; also, the proportion of deaths to population, or to a specific number of the population; death rate; as, a time of great, or low, mortality; the mortality among the settlers was alarming.

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Mortality Quotations

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

I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.
Mitch Hedberg

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.
Susan Sontag

For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do.
David Cronenberg

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.
Paul Farmer

Mortality Translations

mortality in German is Sterblichkeit
mortality in Spanish is mortalidad


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