After decades in power, age and illness are forcing them to confront their mortality.
Many will face crushing financial pressures and be forced to confront their mortality in unimaginable ways.
But keep in mind that having the conversation requires them to confront their mortality.
"Amour" stars the octogenarian French legends Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva as an elderly couple, former music teachers, who confront their mortality after she falls gravely ill.
Our minds were blown away by these boys heading into the woods to find a body, confronting their mortality for the first time.
Contemplating the wrinkled skin of his hands — "the hands whose use has been the dominant theme of my life" — he is troubled by the knowledge that his brain, too, is "an ageing organ"; recalling how his patients have confronted their mortality, he wonders how he will confront his.
fiercely opposed by the payday lenders (see my prior post, "The Payday Lenders Confront Their Mortality").
No one likes to confront their mortality, the true and abiding loneliness of life, our insignificance, but that Cuaron chose to make this a simplistic and unsubtle movie about the human spirit, about the redemption of mankind in our resilience, left me feeling considerably more sad than inspired, wondering what real genius could do with this technology.
On average, judges who were confronted with their mortality beforehand set a much higher bail than those who were were not confronted – $455 versus $50.
Confronted by their mortality, men, more than women, seek power to ease their anxiety.
And yet despite having been confronted by their mortality at such a young age, the majority of teenagers I meet at Body & Soul's headquarters in east London live happy and fulfilling lives, largely because the charity offers them a safe space in which to talk openly about their situation with other young people who understand exactly what they're going through.
