More Matters of Life and Death

“And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.”

Granny Weatherwax in Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett

I recently read Carpe Jugulum. The Discworld witches serve as midwives as a nod to “Roundworld” midwives falsely accused of witchcraft if their influence was perceived as a threat to powerful men. This book opens with Granny Weatherwax attending the delivery of a mother kicked by a horse. She can only save the mother or child. Neither is a ‘thi...