Some of his compressed morbidity — and how compressed it turns out to be depends on the unknowable, his eventual life span — is probably his own doing.
This painting of a skull is not just about his own morbidity – it's about being killed by America.
Frank's enchanting 8-year-old daughter eventually saves him from his own morbidity, but not before O'Flynn makes us reconsider the things we choose to lose — and the things we forget to remember until it's too late.
We used Diagnostic Cost Groups to identify medical conditions for which each individual was treated and to assign a risk score to quantify his or her morbidity burden.
His botched cases became a staple of his department's Morbidity and Mortality conferences, the closed-door sessions in which doctors are expected to review their mistakes and complications....We'd all like to think of "problem doctors" as aberrations.
According to his "compression of morbidity" hypothesis, most Americans, instead of experiencing a more-or-less steady rate of increasing disability and deaths starting at mid-life, could live reasonably well into their 80's, before they begin to die at an accelerated rate.
Meanwhile at home Jason parries wry commentary from his younger brother, Tommy (an appealing Jake O'Connor), about the morbidity of his profession.
Leonard Woolf's 1967 autobiography, which recounted the nervous morbidity of his wife, the writer Virginia Woolf, had the opposite meaning: his title, "Downhill All the Way," was a reflection of a glass-half-empty attitude.
Whether he was inclined to horror through his youthful illnesses, ingrained morbidity, or post-war gloom (and he had written more conventional stuff earlier in his life) is up to Lovecraft academics to determine, but a couple of stories in this volume gave me the willies, so one can imagine what effect they had on people three-quarters of a century ago.
