In lectures and interviews, she urged older Americans to exercise, nurture friendships and retain as much independence as possible while accepting the inevitability of physical decline.
No, historically, killing Native people physically was never the battle; disease, huge population disparity, and the United States' commitment to brutal total warfare against Natives and superior arms made the physical victory somewhat an inevitability at some point.
This may reflect the predominance of low health expectations in our sample, and an underlying acceptance of the inevitability of physical decline, but it may also be connected to a degree of 'cancer fatalism'.
Moreover, older persons are more likely to have negative expectations regarding the inevitability of further physical decline after they experience bathing difficulties [ 42].
Doctors have the moral obligation of exercising due care, balancing intended benefits against risks and inevitabilities of harm, physical, psychological, and social.
— is interwoven with a propulsive, often harrowing account of the physical demands of labor in all its irresistible, unimaginable inevitability.
Likewise, though its subject matter is the inevitability of death and the various afflictions, physical and mental, of old age, the novel is far from being morbid or depressing.
The underlying assumption of Pynchon's fiction was the inevitability of entropy i.e., the disintegration of physical and moral energy.
It was then that I realized that there is a spirit in us that does not wither away with the same inevitability that we know all too well from our physical decay.
The inevitability of death.
