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.
Yes indeed, there was a funeral. From Jean Baker's Mary Todd Lincoln, which is the standard biography. In the early morning of July 16 [1882] she died of a stroke. Three days later, if she had hovered at her funeral, she must have been pleased. Again Mary Todd Lincoln was somebody. The mayor had declared a holiday.