I think modern healthcare really put a focus back on people as individuals. Mortality rates were quite high even from what we see now as trivial illness or inju

I think modern healthcare really put a focus back on people as individuals. Mortality rates were quite high even from what we see now as trivial illness or injury, and people would have a lot of offspring to account for this in the past. By the time I reached adult hood I only experienced a handful of deaths of close people, all from old age.