Sentences with phrase «think of mortality»

Turns out, those who were primed to think of mortality were much more likely to save the resource for future use by others.

I'm not sure where the motivation came from after a two year lay - off, but it was probably related to thoughts of mortality, primarily my own.

These numbered stones, with their inherent contrast of human labour and the monumental timescale of geology, catalyse thoughts of mortality, of catalogues of the vanished and anonymous.

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Thinking about mortality is kind of depressing, but if you have anyone that depends on your income, then you need to plan for what will happen if you pass away.

The reviewer can tell the reader that in Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions he is to think along with the author about what it means to seek God, how the «resolution of duty» that ought to be present in marriage transforms romantic love into love that conquers everything, and how the awareness of one's mortality, of the certainty of death, of «death's decision» enhances earnestness in life.

Will it help me face my fear of mortality by promising an afterlife of eternal bliss for me and torture for everyone who thinks differently than me?

I am too scared to face the reality of my own mortality and am willing to be seen as hypocritical, hateful and ignorant if it means never having to think for myself.»

Some rejected all forms of life after death, including the possibility of resurrection; some recognized man's mortality but looked for a physical resurrection as man's only hope, and then only for some; for some the resurrection hope was to be understood more universally and in varying spiritual forms; some thought in terms of the immortality of the soul and then could dispense with resurrection talk altogether.

But that certain sayings of Oriental wisdom and of the psalms make an immediate appeal to the modern man is due to the fact that this religion has recognized clearly and taken account of a reality which modern thinking gladly ignores or seeks to evade with various theories — the reality of death, of mortality.

Perhaps you think you can perform some sort of mental gymnastics that allow you to bypass the AA god, but you're fooling yourself and in the process giving credibility to fundamentally flawed program that fails to improve on the rate of natural remission while increasing the mortality rate.

I think awareness of one's mortality is a perfectly appropriate motivator.

Thus for each of us, the exacting and inescapable question, which must be faced and answered, is the question of our total mortal life as we are now living it, a question which arises from our mortality with the responsibility which that entails, which puts itself to us in the form of our measuring up to the possibility of becoming authentically ourselves, and which issues in our realization (not so much in thought as in deeply felt experience as existing men) of blessedness, as we know ourselves becoming what we truly are, or in destruction or damnation, as we know ourselves both frustrated men and failures in our human fulfillment.

And so nature intends, so to speak, that each of us find compensation for or meaning in our mortality in our replacements, in our children, our fellow citizens, our friends, and in our great accomplishments in thought and deed.

This presumption of agency carried over into thunder, stars, seasons, mortality, etc. or so the hypothesis goes I think.

Just as we shouldn't condemn all hospitals or all drs for single (or in most cases multiple) mistakes or otherwise that lead to the maternal and infant mortality and morbidity, we should not hold up a single death in the UC community and use it to condemn a way of thinking.

Anthropologists think that continuous holding may have been a strategy to reduce infant mortality, the risk of which has been lowered dramatically in the West.

A little earlier than I was referring but I think they just steadily improved practices of infant feeding over time because there was significant mortality associated with «artificial feeding,» though it was less the milk itself (my husband says they traditional gave goats milk to babies whose mothers couldn't feed them), than the practices associated with delivering non-human milk to infants (e.g., dirty bottle teats, spoiled milk).

But our northern neighbours, the Dutch, have a very high home - birthing rate (about 30 %, I think) and one of the lowest perinatal morbidity and mortality rates in the world!

In spite of our vigilance, preterm births are on the rise, cerebral palsy - thought to be caused by fetal distress - rates have remained stagnant, and in 2002, infant mortality rose for the first time since 1958.

She thought that she had succeeded in Perinatal mortality and morbidity in a nationwide cohort of 529 688 low - risk planned home and hospital births (2009) which appeared to show that homebirth with a midwife in the Netherlands is as safe as hospital birth with a midwife.

As terrifying as it is to think of our own mortality, it's necessary to plan ahead just in case and one of the best things you...

I do think it is unethical to deride a woman for deciding that something else did in fact outweigh the 0.11 % increased risk of neonatal mortality from attempted homebirth.

Personally, I think it's curious how many physicians and mothers - to - be place such a high emphasis on the 0.11 % risk reduction of neonatal mortality from hospital births, while thinking nothing of engaging other common practices (i.e. poor dietary habits, overuse of antibiotics, participation in contact sports) that certainly increase their child's lifetime risk of chronic disease, injury, or even death.

In the Netherlands a home birth is the standard, yet they have one of the lowest mother / child mortality rates in the world, which isfood for thought.

Most of us have the luxury of not thinking much about our own mortality until we are much older — these kids live it every single minute of every single day.

I thought of how, when faced with our own mortality, we finally understand the clichéd phrase of «what really matters» — often too late.

I think the closest I've seen was the Birthplace study done in the UK, which showed, for ultra low - risk women in the UK who had a previous vaginal birth, homebirth could be almost as safe as hospital (first - time moms had higher incidences of perinatal mortality and neonatal brain injuries).

For some people, a quadrupling of perinatal mortality is «too high», and why they think it is reasonable to try to dissuade women from having a home birth attended by a CPM or a UC.

Since the Netherlands is held up a homebirth Holy Land in so much of the homebirth literature I think it's very valid to point out that their perinatal mortality rate isn't that great.

Homebirth and natural childbirth advocates think childbirth is inherently safe because the current rates of neonatal and maternal mortality are quite low.

I also think that the differences in reported rates in the US may have a factor like the differences in infant mortality rates between countries, that is, a different way of reporting.

«We have government telling doctors that one of their key responsibilities is to cut avoidable mortality and yet they are stepping away from giving them the key tool that will make a difference, which I think is outrageous.

In the midst of his long, testing labors, a tragedy drove him to think intently about mortality.

«I think using our frailty index can kind of enlighten surgeons into recognizing that even if they are doing an elective case, such as total knee or hip replacement, sicker patients who have significant medical histories may have a high risk of wound infections and even mortality,» Dr. Adams said.

«I think it's a hard argument to make either strongly in favor or strongly against the formation of ellipticals by mergers,» since some clusters don't survive to the age of old ellipticals and the «infant mortality rate» is uncertain.

«We don't think every [baby boomer] needs to run out and see their primary care provider and get tested immediately, but they shouldn't put this off for years either,» says CDC's Bryce Smith, a social scientist who is the lead author of the recommendations published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Although tuberculosis (TB) is commonly thought of as being a disease that mainly affects nineteenth century poets and Victor Hugo characters, it is still the second-most common cause of mortality from an infectious disease in the world, killing nearly three people every minute.

«We are born of mothers, we had fathers, we mature, we make decisions about generativity, we think about a next generation, we face our mortality,» Turkle says.

-- 7) Forest models for Montana that account for changes in both climate and resulting vegetation distribution and patterns; 8) Models that account for interactions and feedbacks in climate - related impacts to forests (e.g., changes in mortality from both direct increases in warming and increased fire risk as a result of warming); 9) Systems thinking and modeling regarding climate effects on understory vegetation and interactions with forest trees; 10) Discussion of climate effects on urban forests and impacts to cityscapes and livability; 11) Monitoring and time - series data to inform adaptive management efforts (i.e., to determine outcome of a management action and, based on that outcome, chart future course of action); 12) Detailed decision support systems to provide guidance for managing for adaptation.

The age - associated decrease in functionality of the human immune system is thought to have a negative impact on the capacity to provide protection against infection, in turn leading to increased incidence of mortality.

«By discovering the mechanism of how and where bacteria initiate disease, we think we can give a strong message to the medical community to stimulate the revision of currently used therapies and this could potentially result in a reduction of disease burden and mortality in the UK and elsewhere.»

«Trying to manage the stress and having social support may reduce the risk of mortality,» says Dr. Sareen, who has studied suicide risk and suicidal thoughts among cancer patients, but wasn't involved in the current study.

The Pap smear makes its debut The next time your gynecologist tells you to «just relax» as she pokes at your cervix with a cotton swab, lie back and think of George Papanicolaou, the guy behind the roughly 75 percent drop in mortality rates from cervical cancer in the United States since 1941.

It also makes sense to think that judging from the flexitarian video here on Nutritionfacts detailing how as you move from animal based to plant based your BMI drops towards optimal range, your mortality drops, your chance of diabetes and so on decreases and more..

These findings suggest that fiber intake may offer a potential public health benefit in reducing all - cause mortality» I think we also have to consider the role of resistant starch and other fermentable fibers separately from non fermentable fibers from grain.

I feel like Links I Love ends up becoming this big sapfest of existential questions and thoughts on time and mortality and... just go call your family and tell them you love them today.

Whatever else these three may be thinking of, they feel the shadow of mortality and boredom along with nostalgia for their dampened sexuality.

Since turning 65, thoughts of ambition, mortality, aging, and love are firmly on the old man's mind.

«Starting another start - up to make money wasn't motivating to me,» explained Partovi in an interview on Recode, before adding that the death of Steve Jobs had him thinking about his own mortality: «Steve Jobs was 12 or 13 years older than me, and I thought «If I die in 13 years, what will I look back on?

Level 3 — significant use of private firm - specific data, or public data not derived from the markets (think of a life insurance industry standard mortality table)