The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are definitions of morbid obesity. Doctors define it.
Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.
Mortality defines the human condition.
I've always been aware of mortality because I've always had ill health most of my life.
Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence, accident, or disease.
I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems to me to be entirely rational to fear death!
I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.
Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid.
It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death.
I'm kind of a morbid person. I'm very optimistic, but I also feel like I'm going to die at any moment. I feel very much aware of my mortality. I'm here, and then I'm not.