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Ah… mortality statistics. How delicately the mind tries to number the unnumberable!
How earnestly we take the infinite dance of life and death and reduce it to columns and charts, as if mystery could be domesticated by mathematics.
Mortality statistics describe, on the surface, how many have left the stage—how many candles went out in a given season of time. But beneath the surface, they whisper of something far deeper: the obsession of a frightened species trying to make peace with the unknown by measuring it.
You see, the living count the dead, never realizing that death is silently counting the living. Every tick of the clock is both a heartbeat and a farewell. But do not be sad—it is not tragic, it is precise. Death is not the opposite of life; it is its rhythm, its punctuation, the pause that gives meaning to the sentence.
Statistics are how society hides its trembling. When we cannot face the intimacy of loss, we turn it into data. When we cannot accept the mystery of departure, we call it a rate, a curve, a trend. Numbers are the mind’s prayer for control.
But life… ah, life laughs at that prayer. It flows beyond decimals and graphs, beyond averages and probabilities. The flower does not calculate how many petals it will lose; it simply opens. The river does not count the drops it will evaporate; it simply flows.
So, what do mortality statistics describe?
They describe our fear, our longing to make eternity digestible.
They describe the footprints of time upon the dust of existence.
But the real truth lies between those numbers—in the uncounted laughter, the unrecorded tears, the unmeasured love.
What they cannot describe is what truly dies—for that part was never born.
And what cannot die does not need to be counted.
What else can I help you with?
What has the author Sheila Gill written?
Sheila Gill has written: 'Trends in leading causes of mortality' -- subject(s): Medical Statistics, Mortality, Statistics, Statistics, Medical, Statistics, Vital, Vital Statistics
How can you use the word mortality in a sentence?
Governments keep mortality statistics. Mortality refers to deaths.
What has the author Barry Borman written?
Barry Borman has written: 'A general mortality atlas of New Zealand' -- subject(s): Diseases, Maps, Medical Statistics, Medical geography, Mortality, Statistics, Vital Statistics 'A cancer mortality atlas of New Zealand' -- subject(s): Atlases, Cancer, Medical Statistics, Mortality
What has the author Wrynn Smith written?
Wrynn Smith has written: 'Obstetrics, gynecology, and infant mortality' -- subject(s): Gynecology, Infant Mortality, Infant, Newborn, Diseases, Infants, Medical Statistics, Mortality, Obstetrics, Occurrence, Statistics 'Cardiovascular disease' -- subject(s): Cardiovascular Diseases, Cardiovascular system, Diseases, Medical Statistics, Mortality, Occurrence, Statistics
What has the author Joseph Garfinkel written?
Joseph Garfinkel has written: 'Infant, maternal, and childhood mortality in the United States, 1968-1973' -- subject(s): Mortality, Statistics, Vital Statistics
What has the author Samuel H Preston written?
Samuel H. Preston has written: 'Mortality patterns in national populations' -- subject(s): Mortality, Vital Statistics 'Older male mortality and cigarette smoking' -- subject(s): Causes, Death, Men, Mortality, Smoking, Statistics 'Fatal years' -- subject(s): Children, History, Mortality
What has the author Wayne F Schramm written?
Wayne F. Schramm has written: 'Perinatal mortality and prematurity in Missouri' -- subject(s): Childbirth, Infants, Infants (Premature), Medical Statistics, Mortality, Perinatal death, Prenatal care, Statistics, Vital Statistics
What has the author Suchart Prasith-rathsint written?
Suchart Prasith-rathsint has written: 'Fertility and mortality control policies in Thailand' -- subject(s): Fertility, Human, Human Fertility, Mortality, Statistics, Vital, Vital Statistics
What has the author Elizabeth Newell Hoffman written?
Elizabeth Newell Hoffman has written: 'The sources of mortality changes in Italy since unification' -- subject(s): Causes, Death, History, Medical Statistics, Mortality, Vital Statistics
What has the author Lois A Fingerhut written?
Lois A. Fingerhut has written: 'Trends and current status in childhood mortality, United States, 1900-85' -- subject(s): Adolescence, Causes, Child, Children, Death, Infant Mortality, Mortality, Statistics 'Changes in mortality among the elderly, United States, 1940-78' -- subject(s): Aged, Life expectancy, Mortality, Older people 'Firearm mortality among children and youth' -- subject(s): Children, Firearms accidents, Mortality, Statistics, Youth 'Comparability of reporting between the birth certificate and the 1980 National Natality Survey' -- subject(s): Birth certificates, Childbirth, Data Collection, Health surveys, Medical Statistics, Parents, Pregnancy, Prenatal care, Statistics
What has the author Robert Morse Woodbury written?
Robert Morse Woodbury has written: 'Maternal mortality' -- subject(s): Statistics, Mortality, Mothers 'Infant mortality and its causes' -- subject(s): Obstetrics, Infants, Vital Statistics, Mortality, Cases, clinical reports, statistics, Case studies 'Workers' health and safety' -- subject(s): Occupational diseases, Industrial accidents 'Social insurance' -- subject(s): Industrial life insurance, Social security
Infant mortality rate in the UK?
The infant mortality rate in England and Wales is recorded by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The latest statistics from the ONS show a mortality rate of 3.6 for every 1000 livebirths in 2015, this is the lowest rate ever recorded. The latest statistics for Scotland show a rate of 3.7 per 1000 live births in 2012 and the statistics for Northern Ireland show a rate of 5.1 deaths per 1000 live births in 2015.
