The Importance Of Mortality

Register to read the introduction… It reminded me that even when we are young and growing, our internal clock is still ticking down from the very second your born. Although this may seem like a sad and depressed way to think about it is really not. Mortality is something that no one enjoys thinking about, and it is proven in different social cognition studies that contemplating our own mortality can threaten our Self-Esteem. But, apart of life is death and this should only make you strive for a good life. Aside from that, the reason I chose this study in particular is because it has personal relevance to everyone, being that everybody has some sort of personality. Whether or not the experiment was able to captivate all personalities, lifestyles, and hazards throughout life, etc., of everybody on earth, the idea of linking personality to longevity can be clear to everyone. But to that, there are several issues I have about this study that aren’t allowing me buy into their conclusion totally. Within the data and available participants their test results are proven to be true, but it was said that all the participants were from the same demographic, race (white), class (middle class), and were tested to be all around the same area in intelligence (bright). This is fine, but it definitely doesn’t portray a whole lot of people other then white, middle class citizens. Say person (a) is born into lower class, had divorced parents, …show more content…
The first that came to mind were the different lifestyle factors that come into play when talking about healthy aging and greater longevity. Like we talked about in class, the situations that we put ourselves in everyday work for or against our longevity. If we choose to be watchful and conscientious about maintaining a healthy lifestyle, along with surrounding yourself with the right people and continuing to learn and use your brain though aging process then you will most definitely live a longer and happier life. It really isn’t all that complicated of concept to understand. This was highlighted in this study because you could easily see that the participants with shorter predicted longevity took hazardous chances and made bad lifestyle