I think part of the reason the conversation regarding death is so difficult is because for generations now we have been largely imune to it. People used to face death as a normal part of life. It could be as simple as having to kill, dress, and butcher your own meat. Now we go to a store where cuts are nicely packaged. Hell, beef products are often infused with CO to give us that typical 'fresh' pink color we yearn for. I think it would have been easier to explain death when it was a more natural part of our surroundings.
Not that it was any less traumatic than today, but it really wasn't that long ago when almost everyone would have had some relation that had lost a young child. The sharp increase in life expectancy and the steep drop in infant mortality over the last century has made the experience of death exceedingly rare for any particular individual.
Not that it was any less traumatic than today, but it really wasn't that long ago when almost everyone would have had some relation that had lost a young child. The sharp increase in life expectancy and the steep drop in infant mortality over the last century has made the experience of death exceedingly rare for any particular individual.
