Mortality

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

It may also refer to:

• Mortality rate, a measure of the number of deaths in a given population
• Case mortality rate, a measure of the number of deaths among a set of diagnosed hospital illness or injury cases
• Mortality displacement, denotes a (forward) temporal shift in the rate of mortality
• Mortality drag, a term to describe a negative impact that is experienced when an annuity purchase is delayed
• Mortality (band), a thrash metal band from Sydney, Australia
• Mortality (computability theory), a property of a Turing machine if it halts when run on any starting configuration
• Mortality, differential attrition between groups in a scientific study
• Mortality (book), a 2012 collection of essays by Anglo-American writer Christopher Hitchens

Mortal may refer to:

• Human, as distinct from a supernatural being
• Mortal (band), a Christian industrial band
• Mortal Kombat, a fighting game series