Go to the chuchyard of Trinity Church at Wall St. and Broadway in lower Manhattan. Check out the graves of women who died in their prime with an infant buried along side her. Read the names of the men who buried 2 or 3 wives and multiple infants.
I walk by Trinity everyday going to work, and I've actually noticed that fact too.
I remember feeling really sad. I was new father and couldn't imagine the level of grief these people suffered. I'd have been suicidal at the loss of one child let alone 4 or 5. Yet somehow they carried on..
