#Mortality

[newtsoftheworldunite]

Anon hate from a mayfly.

"30 years old isn't old man" what privilege do you live in where your life expectancy is far past 30 years

This post blindsided me so bad I spent a full minute staring at it in shock

[cloudberrytroll]

Hug

[neil-gaiman]

I fear mortality any advice

You only really have one thing in common with everyone else who has ever lived, which is you are alive. You're part of a marching band of billions of people -- homo sapiens and the other variants of our species who added their DNA into the gene pool. So you're afraid of the big thing we all share. They were here, and then they weren't. We are here and one day we won't be here. And whether we fear mortality or regard Death as a comforting friend, we are all travelling down the same road, the one everyone travels.

And that's all the advice I've got.

[restingsusvibes]

SOURCES

Graph and accompanying article can be found here: https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality-in-the-past

Graph and article by Max Rosner:

Many people never living to 20 original quote and video by John Green: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4es9DbDpPq0

I just really like finding and citing sources 🤓

Remember, history was awful. Never trust the romantics.

[incognitopolls]

We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

[mawapeach]

Gosh it’s huge shame that I cannot seem to finish this drawing I’ve been working on for months all because I cannot figure out how LIGHTING WORKS ON THE BODY (cropped body to the left and above head) … Anyway, here’s the only “completed” portion of the drawing… Yeah it’s Johnny Cage, hope it still looks like him.

DONT COME AT ME WITH ANATOMY, life’s hard without references. I’ll do more studies for sure

Also college has been slowing down my art motivation 😭 I’ll try my best to draw random doodles of the characters I love! Who would you guys like to see though?

[dk-thrive]

We are so brief.  A one-day dandelion.  A seedpod skittering across the ice.  We are a feather falling from the wing of a bird.  I don’t know why it is given to us to be so mortal and to feel so much. It is a cruel trick, and glorious.

~Louise Erdrich, "Future Home of the Living God" (Harper, August 21, 2017) (via Make Believe Boutique)

[balkanparamo]

‘Der Unerbittliche Freier’: (The Relentless Suitor), 1931

[crimbatimeofficial]

hi guys

Have I ever mentioned the walten files

[courier-roku]

Return to the starry night sky

[mapsontheweb]

Mortality Rate for 20-24 Age Group by Gender

by n0tpc

[patience-and-prayers]

I’m thankful for Hermes and travel, and I feel him when I drive, or am at the farmers market.

I’m grateful for Apollo and music, philosophy and how he shines through each rhythm and beat in the music I listen to.

I’m appreciative of Artemis and the independence she brings me, strength and the courage that passes through when standing up for what I believe in. The connection with wildlife and instincts, the empowerment I feel from her as a woman, all of it I owe to her.

The Gods look at us worshippers and smile, knowing they are treasured.

[cloudberrytroll]

The signs of time

[elisiafarias]

Thanks liu kang for bring us all these cuties

Pdt: i need that oufit for bi han

Credits: me

[nobeerreviews]

The beauty and curse of mortality is we only live once, in just one place and just one time; our lives don't stop because important things are happening to other people, but their lives don't stop for us, either.

-- Foz Meadows

(Verona, Italy)