NO. Don't get worried. I just remember a lot of people being dead in funerals and stuff like that that I knew. In the 1950s they didn't even try to protect kids from the dead and dying unless they were under 3 to 5 years of age. Then they might protect kids more from the dead and dying. But mostly, it was sort of: "Deal with it kid. This is life!"
So, this is kind of how it was when I grew up. You didn't really fully expect to live to be 12 or 20 or 30 most of the time. If you did you would consider yourself lucky. And I do. Because of all the kids and adults I saw die in the 1950s and 1960s.
Most of the dead were from my church which was similar to Christian Science in that people didn't get shots or go to doctors unless their leg or arm was broken or something like that ... So, of course I was going to see a lot of beautiful sincere people die from childhood through old age that I loved.
I remember being about 9 years of age and since like my father (who was valedictorian of his high school class) thinking more like a scientist. And wondering why people had to run from doctors and die all the time.
Over time, I realized it was because most people didn't trust doctors in the 1950s and 1960s because of all the lies they told people. Mostly this has changed now for the most part, and in addition to this the average person now has been to college enough to be able to comprehend health a lot more than people in the 1950s and 1960s.
So, the things that have changed is there are more responsible doctors now (in every way) and there are more people keeping all doctors accountable (malpractice insurance). So, if you are going to lie to people like they did in the 1950s and 1960s then you are likely going to pay a lot of money in being sued a lot by patients who died (their relatives) or by the patients themselves who barely survived whatever the doctor did or didn't do that they were supposed to.
I remember one situation when the Glendale Chiropractic college was across from "Foods for Life" health food store in Glendale then I believe and I was in junior high and a bunch of us dared each other to go into the Glendale Chiropractic colleges (Dead people's room) my friends called it where dead babies and dead cadavers were kept. So, a bunch of us snuck in there and looked at dead babies and dead old people in drawers and it was really creepy but we were crazy enough to do that without the colleges permission then. And then we snuck out of there leaving every thing as it was.
As boys in Grade School there was a lot of curiosity about death and sex and things like that because mostly information (real and useful information) wasn't available to us because of the way society was then for the most part.
So, this kept most of us very naive. However, I started dating about age 15 and by age 16 I had my own car and a girlfriend 21 years of age which sort of put me way ahead of all my friends. By age 17 I was going steady with a girl in college one year older than me and I decided to drop out of school because High school seemed silly at that point.
But, luckily my parents talked me into going to a private school in Santa Fe, New Mexico where it was 7000 feet and it snowed and I always liked the snow and the mountains a lot. So, my last year of high school I went to a private church school in Santa Fe, New Mexico because a friend of mine attended there and had a great time. I was also the oldest tallest, biggest and strongest student there so I didn't have to fight anyone and I sort of ran the roost except for the teachers. So, I had a really great time there from fall 1965 until May of 1966 when I graduated high school then.
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