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.
The most important events in Abraham Lincoln's life are: when his mother died at the age of 34 when he was only 9 years old due to the Milk Disease; When he freed the slaves wâ¦ith the emancipation proclamation that freed all the slaves in any slave states, and when he was murdered at the booth theater.