mortality - Concepts

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Concepts

Tempus Fugit - The Latin phrase meaning 'time flies' - a reminder of time's swift passage.
Ars Longa Vita Brevis - The Latin phrase meaning 'art is long, life is short' - the contrast between craft and mortality.
Categorical Desires - Desires that give us reasons to continue living, as opposed to conditional desires that assume we are already alive.
Four Thousand Weeks - The realization that an average human lifespan of ~80 years translates to only about 4,000 weeks, putting our finite time in stark perspective.
Mortality Salience - Conscious awareness of one's eventual death and its profound psychological effects on behavior, attitudes, and worldview.
Pro-aging Trance - The psychological state of accepting aging and death as inevitable and even meaningful, framed by some as a rationalization of mortality.