I'm not sure what you mean by "more and more present", but really the reason this is such a tragedy is that is so unusual for a relatively young healthy woman to die prematurely. From the 1840's, when good record keeping became a general to about 1910 statistics show that young women were very vulnerable to typhus, cholera, child birth, small pox it was truly horrible, popular songs reflected just that, "Listen to the Mocking Bird", which was adopted by the 3 Stooges, actually find the words and read them. . There was a culture of death or rather dealing with death throughout the Victorian Age. If you go to any relatively old cemetery you should count the headstones of you woman who died in their late teens to early thirties. The numbers are sometimes astounding. We should mourn the loss of this young woman, but be very thankful it happens so much less frequently today.
Manuel Magalhães wrote: > Thanks for posting this. Unfortunately it's becoming more and more present > in our lives or in the surroundings. So much pain, and yet so much courage. > > Best regards, > > Manuel > > -----Mensagem original----- > De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Em nome de Derby > Chang > Enviada: terça-feira, 8 de Abril de 2008 11:06 > Para: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Assunto: Pulitzer > > I am speechless > > http://www.prestongannaway.com/main.php > > (the Pulitzer winning entry is under Stories and Essays - Remember Me) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc > > -- Vote for Cthulhu. Why settle for a lesser evil... -- Dr. Jerry Pournelle -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
