I think her point was a lot of things could kill you but are rather trivial to deal with now with medical care. Not that every sort of infection or illness is a

I think her point was a lot of things could kill you but are rather trivial to deal with now with medical care. Not that every sort of infection or illness is a death sentence without modern medicine. >I am a bit bothered by such statements. Bodies actually can go a long long way before dying. Yeah, they can. And yet at the same time life is fragile. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage survived a railroad spike in the head at a time where that pretty much would have killed 999 out of 1,000 people. And perfectly healthy people died by the truckload from the Spanish flu, and influenzas that hit healthy people the hardest because of cytokine storms. People survived horrific illnesses and injuries throughout the ages and soldiered on. And plenty of people died along the way from those same hardships.