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A reader writes:

The first respondent you posted is a little confused about thedifferences between people now and people in history. Asrecently as a century ago, and certainlythroughout most of human history, death was a constantcompanion for people of all stripes. Infant mortality, maternal death in childbirth, horrific wasting diseases, hand-to-hand combat - all these and more combined to ensure thatmost people, if not everyone, was well acquainted with death by the time they reached...