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Article: Death and Dying
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DEATH AND DYING
DEATH AND DYING.
In the last 400 years, life expectancies in America have increased, the leading causes of death have changed, and twentieth-century technology has spawned the invention of antibiotics, vaccines, organ transplants, cloning, and genetic engineering. But in seventeenth-century America, death was a terrifying and uncontrollable reality. Half of the original Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth died in the first winter of 1620
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1621. Puritan tradition taught that death was a release from the world but juxtaposed this comfort with a fear of God's punishment for earthly sin.
Life in the colonies was made more precarious by infectious diseases, fevers, ...
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