Hi Listers, I would think that our early ancestors faced a life more periolous than now. But have to think that the worse is the logging, lumber industry, even with todays techonology's. Equipment failure is the biggest culpurt, here we hear of few each year...sad loss, as many have young families ....Where I now live, we are into our 4th & 5th generations of logging families..farming has its share of failures also...but most really are preventable..one of the Cardnal rules is never wear a long sleeved shirt around equipment, one that is unbuttoned, or long hair...it will wrap around a spinning object faster than you can imagaine. But the biggest killer are Auto's and their speeding drivers....heard the other day, that some 100 people a day, loose their lives directly related to speed. ~Linda~ I'm so busy....i really don't know if I found a rope...or lost my horse ?