Mortality

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Mortality is the state of being mortal, or susceptible to death; the opposite of immortality.
Mortality may also refer to:

 Fish mortality, a parameter used in fisheries population dynamics to account for the loss of
fish in a fish stock through death
 Mortality (book), a 2012 collection of essays by Anglo-American writer Christopher Hitchens
 Mortality (computability theory), a property of a Turing machine if it halts when run on any
starting configuration
 Mortality rate, a measure for the rate at which deaths occur in a given population
 Mortality/differential attrition, an error in the internal validity of a scientific study