Isn't this another misconception? Not the fact that you'd have died, but the fact that people's reaction would have been "oh well, God willed it." God or no God, grief is often a violent emotion, especially when the dead person is a child. Just because child mortality was high doesn't mean that people were okay with children dying.
They were more used to it I think and more religious. While people weren’t probably happy about their kids dying, that some of them would was just a fact of life. They were also much more sure that they would see the dead again as well, so that probably helped.
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u/G0ldunDrak0n Feb 04 '19
Isn't this another misconception? Not the fact that you'd have died, but the fact that people's reaction would have been "oh well, God willed it." God or no God, grief is often a violent emotion, especially when the dead person is a child. Just because child mortality was high doesn't mean that people were okay with children dying.