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.
Civil War. Lincoln dies from an assassinâs bullet. President Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, dies from an assassinâs bullet. Shot by John Wilkes Booth at Fordâs Theater in Washington the night before, Lincoln lived for nine hours before succumbing to the severe head wound he sustained.