I think it's fascinating how disconnected we are from death in modern times. The average life span in the 1700s was 35 years old. 1 out of 100 MOTHERS died du

I think it's fascinating how disconnected we are from death in modern times. The average life span in the 1700s was 35 years old. 1 out of 100 MOTHERS died during childbirth centuries ago. You could get an infection and be dead in a week because there were no antibiotics. Spanish flu killed 10 percent of the worlds population, the black plagues death rate was far far higher than that. Cholera, red fever, polio, there were so many and such variety of different ways to die. Death was a constant specter and I imagine life was considered a little cheaper? I don't know. I don't know if people had constant endless PTSD back then or if PTSD is our natural state, or if PTSD is contextual, and nowdays we live in extremely pro mental health times. Either way its testament to how amazing modern medicine has become and how valuable everyones lives are nowdays.