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.
April 15, 2016. On April 15, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln died from his assassinâs wounds. But if John Wilkes Boothâs plot were entirely successful, a little-known senator may have been thrust into the White House.