> On one side, we are born, maybe reproduce, then we die. Fundamentally the same. Yet birth can involve medical procedures to protect the life of both child an

> On one side, we are born, maybe reproduce, then we die. Fundamentally the same. Yet birth can involve medical procedures to protect the life of both child and mother. When and how often we choose to have children is different. We don't need to have as many children (indeed, it is undesirable to have as many children) because of that last point, how and when we die. While the causes of death to the body may be the same, the distribution of those causes is different since we tend to live to an older age. About 10 years ago, I went to an abandoned cemetary in a remote community. It was quite tragic simply seeing the distribution of those deaths. A great many were infants. A great many more were teens and young adults. Then there were the elders. While we still have deaths at all ages, we don't have as many people dying so young because the in between things, the factors in people's lives that cause them to die at a young age, are not a part of our lives. We must be careful about over generalizations and trivializing the challenges of past eras.