Whenever I read about all the early deaths and painful diseases that people used to suffer with (and still do suffer with in most of the world today), it makes me more and more glad to be an American living here and now.
We owe such a huge debt to those who gave us our freedom and prosperity.
Me, too. I visited a historic cemetery this morning with my children, and one of the graves was of a woman who died in the 1890's at 32. She was predeceased by five of her young children. I have seven living children, at 38!
This is an interesting study on the Medicis. I hope they put a book out, along with the documentary!