Mortality Syndrome

"C'mon, you sons-of-bitches: You wanna live forever?" Daniel Daly, USMC, Belleau Wood, June 1, 1918.

Yes, there’s good news and bad news.

You, my friend, are born with this.

Dubbing it a “syndrome”, implies that not everyone is born with it.

There are two forms, biologically and medically.

Early Onset.

That means you have a medical disease or environment that predisposes you to an early grave. This itself can be nosologically subdivided.

EO/ Type A. Mortality due to unavoidable circumstances.

EO/ Type B. Mortality brought on by stupidity which might have been avoided, given a different peer group.

EO/ Type C. Mortality due to selection of an acknowlegdely hazardous profession, for example logging, and to some degree, military during an active war.

Late Onset.

LO/Type A. Mere physiological or psychological fatigue or dysfunction of the normal, and/or loss of the survival instinct.

LO/Type B. An acquired disease that shortens the impression of immortality.

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