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As a meditation on human mortality, its theme is one of the most common in literature.
WSJ: Meditation on Mortality | Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard | Thomas Gray | Masterpiece by John J. Miller
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In 2010, they placed 41st dead last among all developed nations, based on Human Mortality Database research.
FORBES: Why Are Some Americans Living Shorter Lives Than Others?
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Among developed countries, American women sank from the middle of the pack in 1970 to last place in 2010, according to the Human Mortality Database.
MSN: NYT: 'Alarming' drop in life span for some whites - US news - The New York Times | NBC News
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The season of Lent is marked by fasting and acts of penitence for past sins, with worshippers marking a cross on their foreheads with wood ash to symbolise human mortality.
BBC: Pope Benedict holds last public Mass
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The focus upon human mortality rates associated with climate change serves to remind us that the far vaster constellation of life species upon which we depend is far more vulnerable than we are.
FORBES: 5 Million Deaths From Climate Change Pedicted By 2020
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"In the absence of human-induced mortality, you still have consequences of anthropogenic changes in the environment, " she suggested.
BBC: Early life care shapes African elephants' future
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Mortality defines the human condition.
NPR: 'Republic of Suffering' Author Drew Gilpin Faust
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It's this interest in meat where it comes from how the animals are treated before they become meat, whether or not we, as human beings, should be eating meat at all, what meat suggests about our own mortality, about - the ethical questions we all or many of us struggle with.
NPR: Former Vegetarians Start Magazine About Meat