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Mortality as a Design Problem: Why Mortality Awareness Shapes Ethics

Modern cultures expend great effort in developing systems that enhance efficiency, production, and economic prosperity. However, one…

whichever precedes

A fractured tooth measures the distance between mortality and intervention

Quantum Immortality: The Physics and Philosophy of Living Forever

Today’s Summer Heat Scares Me

I’ve never been a big fan of summer; mostly I hated baring my arms. At 81, mortality enters the picture

OVERVIEW OF CERVICAL CANCER

Cervical cancer is a malignant cancer that arises from the cervix. It is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among women worldwide…

Sunday Musings From a Rose Bush

On mortality, friendship, and the people who keep us blooming

The Children I Cannot Bear to Leave Behind

Mortality, Faith, and the Moral Inheritance of a Single Father

84 year sentence

CW: dark, discusses self-harm/mortality

Biohacker Aiming to Live Forever Gets an Autoimmune Disease

A cautionary tale for anyone who dreams of immortality

How to Build a Dyson Sphere

Our wish to believe in civilisation’s immortality has led us to believe that we may, in some distant future, harness the power of our star…

The Dollar’s Immortality Machine

Why USD stablecoins might buy America another century of reserve currency dominance

Mortality

The sudden realization of life & death comes home

The Night We Borrow from Death

Sleep, mortality, and what Islamic thought asks us to notice when consciousness lets go

Selected Poems by Robert Burns: A Fascinating Collection of Short Poems

“Selected Poems” by Robert Burns is a fascinating collection of short poems based on the themes of love, village life, mortality and…

Escape Velocity Is the Wrong Dream

Everyone in this field is selling immortality. I think they are pointing at the wrong miracle, and missing the stranger one happening in…

Active or Passive? How the Direction of Social Ties Shapes Older Adults’ Health

More than 19% of South Korea’s population is now over 65 — and social isolation in old age is one of the strongest predictors of mortality…

Hire Obstetrics Billing Services for Complex Maternity Claims

Maternal mortality in the US is significantly growing, and most people assume the reasons are purely clinical. A large portion it comes…

The 5 Tests That Predict How You Die After 60 (And None of Them Are on Your Lab Report)

Not bloodwork. Not scans. Five free tests that predict mortality backed by over 20 million observations.

The Skull’s Eternal Gaze: Symbol of Mortality and Human Obsession

Skulls have haunted art across centuries, serving as powerful reminders of life’s fragility. From Renaissance vanitas paintings, where…

Sheer Lunacy

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

Nam Dae-joong’s “The First Ride” (2025): A Second “First Journey” Hauling the Weight of Trauma

The themes of friendship and maturity in the shadow of mortality (Part 2)

Nam Dae-joong’s “The Last Ride” (2015): A Race for the Pleasure of Fulfillment

The themes of friendship and maturity in the shadow of mortality (Part 1)

Knowledge Without Orientation

Mortality, Fragmentation, and the Search for Unity in Anton Chekhov’s A Dreary Story

The Interwoven Tapestry of Humanity

In the 18th century, John Quincy Adams wrote, “The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.” In more…

Understanding Population Dynamics Through the Leslie Matrix

A country’s future population count is determined by three forces: fertility, mortality, and migration. This is expressed beautifully by…

The Time Illusion

On time, mortality and the illusion that we’ll always have more of it later

Immune Response and Research Insights in Triple Negative Breast Cancer

Breast cancer has emerged as the most prevalent malignancy among women globally, and it is associated with the highest mortality rate among…

The Missing Link in Immortality: Are Yanamanko Factors the Key?

There are two types of people in this world.

Money vs. Mortality: Why Income Inequality Is Shortening Lives

Explore the untold story of economics, healthcare, and policy driving the life‑expectancy gap worldwide.

Immortality and the practice of Medicine

Why the quest for longevity is a problem

Quantum Immortality: a Curse or Blessing?

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The Sybil’s Plea

I am Sybil of the Cumae, hanging in the cage trapped by mortality trapped by immortality.

When AI Entered the Sanctuaries

or Creation, Calculation, and Mortality at the Threshold of Frontier Models

The Suicidal Species and the Illusion of Amortality: Remembering Edgar Morin

He passed away just a few days ago, and the relative silence surrounding his death feels almost paradoxical for a thinker who spent a…

The Immortality Project: Geopolitics, Technology, and the Future of Human Existence

Issue: Vol. 1, №7 (2026) Publisher: Multipolar Lens-ZHAERYN ADVANCED SYSTEMS & INTELLIGENCE Category: Geopolitics | Emerging Technology |…

Who silences the “Silent Killer”? (TECH IN HYPERTENSION)

Death from cardiovascular-related diseases has become one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide. In Ghana, for instance, stroke was…

Immortality — A Blessing or a Curse?

The Weird Uncle

Analyzing Mortality Patterns in Nigeria Using Power BI: A Health Informatics Case Study

Introduction

The Case for Conditionalism: Brief Belief 4

This post defends conditionalism (conditional immortality), the belief that only the saved receive physical eternal life, while the unsaved…

Day 4/30: The Immortality Engine: Mastering Deployments and YAML

The Real-Time Scenario: The Silent Crash

Giving Up Immortality for Taer Sadam / Curd Rice

The Spatter of mustard seeds, the nutty aroma of urad & chana dal in coconut oil, the smokiness of the dahi chilli that elevates…

⏳ The Biology of Aging: Have Silicon Valley Billionaires Locked the “Immortality Code” in Sovereign…

We have been systemically conditioned to believe that “aging” is merely the natural autumn of life — an unavoidable biological tax on time…

7 Weird Longevity Secrets Used by Ancient Emperors

How rulers chased immortality (and what actually worked)

The Boroughs and the Horror of Abandoning the Elderly

The series uses monsters and immortality to explore aging, invisibility, and society’s fear of growing old

Forged by the World

What the United States Marine Corps taught me about people, mortality, culture — and what it means to truly live

The Aesthetic, The Ethical, and The Elf: How Arwen’s Rejection of Immortality is Kierkegaard’s…

Or, Why Giving Up Eternal Life for a Scruffy Ranger is Less About Romance and More About Telling the Universe It Can Keep Its Boring…

Oxidative Stress as a Contributing Factor and Potential Target in Diabetic Complications

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is one of the biggest concerns for public health, which gives rise to an elevated risk of mortality. Oxidative…

Harvard Study Reveals the Exercise Habit That Cuts Mortality Risk by 19%

The Simple Workout Change That Could Add Years to Your Life

Immortality won’t solve anything

I didn’t set out to have a kind of guiding principle or moral to my ongoing story “The Diaries of Netovicius the Vampire,” but it wasn’t…

Wasteland Plains

A poem about mortality