Human beings in general have always been challenged by death. Human beings have created a lot of different ways to deal with death and how to keep going on with life in spite of that being a part of life that has such a profound affect.

Keep in mind that it was not that long ago where human beings did not live as long as they do now, and many women died in childbirth, and human beings also had to learn how to experience the loss of a child as that was something many human beings did experience in human history was the fact that experiencing the death of a child was much more common then it is today.