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the deadline that gives every other deadline its meaning.
means The condition of being subject to death; also the rate or number of deaths in a given group or place.
from From Latin mortalitas, built on mortalis 'subject to death,' from mors, mortis 'death' — the same dark root that seeds mortal, mortgage (literally a 'death-pledge'), mortify, and the embalmer's mortuary. It reached English through Old French mortalite in the medieval period, and gained grim everyday use in the centuries of plague, when 'the mortality' was simply what people called the dying. The deeper ancestor is the Proto-Indo-European root *mer- 'to die,' a thread running through many languages.
- clock count
- average human heart beats around 2.5 billion times
- cell turnover
- you lose 330 billion cells daily, yet persist
- oldest verified
- Jeanne Calment reached 122 years, 164 days
- awareness cost
- humans may be the only species mourning the future
- telomere truth
- chromosome tips shorten with every cell division
black death — killed 75-200 million people in eurasia and africa, 1347-1353
spanish flu — infected 500 million people and killed 50-100 million worldwide, 1918-1920
covid-19 pandemic — 6.9 million confirmed deaths globally as of 2024