Personal identity deals with philosophical questions that arise about ourselves by virtue of our being people (or, as lawyers and philosophers like to say, persons). This contrasts with questions about ourselves that arise by virtue of our being living things, conscious beings, material objects, or the like.
Abe Lincoln's mother died of milk sickness caused from â¦ drinking the milk of a cow that has grazed on the poisonous white snakeroot. Nancy Lincoln died at the age of 34 when Abe was 9.
When Lincoln finally breathed his last at 7:22 a.m. on April 15, Mary Lincolns grief was inconsolable. Robert Todd Lincoln at 21, about the time of the assassination of his father. Robert would be the only Lincoln child to survive into adulthood, dying in 1926 at the age of 83.