Sentences with phrase «to face one's own mortality»

The limited availability of donor lungs can lead to long delays before transplant, leaving patients to face a mortality rate of up to 40 percent while they wait.

Q: This film is obviously very much about facing mortality, a very real concept, especially for men.

However, because discussing life insurance means facing our mortality, it's often that one line of insurance coverage that we continue to put off talking about.

In Disappearing Ink: Poetry at the End of Print Culture, published ten years ago, Dana Gioia wrote that «as long as humanity faces mortality and uses language to describe its existence, poetry will remain one of its essential spiritual resources....

I don't think I'm better then theists, nor do I hate theists, I just think most humans can't face mortality or the fact that once we die, thats probably the absolute end.

Living with AIDS and realistically facing my mortality, but living.

Especially when they start facing their mortality.

While federal, state, county and city officials shift responsibilities and blame each other, Chicago infants face mortality rates that are worse than those of many Third World countries.

In the Series Finale, Henry defeats one final political foe but faces his mortality after the deaths of both his best friend Charles Brandon and King Francis of France, and the ghosts of his former queens appear for a final confrontation.

This Is the End (R for crude humor, coarse sexuality, graphic nudity, drug use, violence and pervasive profanity) Ensemble comedy about celebrities forced to face their mortality when the apocalypse arrives while they're partying at James Franco's house.

Even Rocky finally faces his mortality in this movie; death surrounds him.

Beth tries to face mortality with as much courage as she can summon.

Here the artist faces mortality and the grave losses of AIDS that surrounds him.

The spirited Clark and his partner Jane, boldly facing his mortality, embrace the planning of a spiritually meaningful funeral and join with a compassionate local cemeterian to use green burial to save a North Carolina woods from being clear - cut.»

Both the weak and the strong alike will face their mortality as Age of Conan's Saga of Zath server concludes its run next week on May 15th.

«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.

Whilst Boyle has crafted a visceral film resplendent with raw energy and even humour, it is Franco that compels with his multi-faceted performance of an adventurer forced to reconcile his lifestyle choices with his future as he faces his mortality — and my goodness, what a performance it is.

Errol Flynn, the swashbuckling Hollywood star and notorious ladies man, flouted convention all his life, but never more brazenly than in his last years when, swimming in vodka and unwilling to face his mortality, he undertook a liaison with an aspiring actress, Beverly Aadland.

Directed by Bill Condon, and starring the formidable Sir Ian McKellen, the fresh spin on the familiar character sees the eponymous detective, perhaps one of the least introspective of all literary heroes, challenged to look back on his life in his old age and face mortality.

When a patient is facing mortality, these questions seem obvious.

Even with faith in life eternal through Christ, facing your mortality can be difficult.

Jonna has worked therapeutically with adults facing issues of trauma, loss and bereavement, depression, life transitions, eating disorders, abuse, panic attacks and anxiety, living and coping with illness, and facing mortality.