General Chat

I sometimes worry about some 'negative' medical advances - if that makes sense.

In 1946 my mother-in-law lost a baby at 12 hours old and the cause of death was "prematurity, 7 month baby". These days babies born much earlier have a very good chance of survival. As Joy says, thank goodness for medical advances.

Kath. x

This pandemic will be extremely well documented.

I am sure it will provide a lot of fuel for academic research.

They may well think, as I do when looking at causes of death, 'What a pity that there was no cure in those days.'

When I had my first child, fewer than 50 years ago, I was told by the surgeon that if this had happened fifty years previously both child and I would have died.

How grateful I was for medical advances and always will be. <3

Will 21st century technology avert or accelerate the Apocalypse?

I have seen a parish burial register where nearly all the entries on a few pages had a note to say scarlet fever was the cause.

'Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life'. (Yitzhak Rabin.)

Or to the Spanish flu which killed my Grandmother and her unborn baby :-(

or us looking back to the time of the Black Death.

A bit like us finding so many child deaths in our great/grandparents time. Very sad.

When they find so many deaths when there wasn’t a war going and their ancestors were not found because they were trapped on a cruise ship or died on one.