I moved five times in my first nine years in L.A., and each move brought intimations of mortality that were more unsettling than the physical work of setting up a new home.

"Drinking coffee in the morning may be more strongly associated with a lower risk of mortality than drinking coffee later in the day," they wrote in the research paper.

This is where body horror comes in to turn our fear of mortality, or perhaps just ennui, into something, well, horrific.

While Pedro Almodóvar was making “The Room Next Door,” a film very much concerned with mortality and what comes after this life, the 75-year-old Spanish director started noticing something otherworldly occurring.

“Early life is always dangerous for new calves, with a very high mortality rate in the first year,” the center posted on Facebook.