Re: OT: What? the clean-shaven outnumber the bearded? "Yer Ugly Mug," etc.

Christophe Grandsire wrote:

>  dead-born child
Miscarriages or stillbirths are the normally terms (the first refers to
ones that die well before birth and are expelled similaly to a period;
the second to those that are quite recognisably human and the woman gets
to enjoy all the joys of childbirth, like labor and the feeling that I
imagine is, but will fortunately never experience, oh-so-wonderous of
having a (near-) baby-sized object being squeezed out of a hole that small).

I understand that in Australia, miscarriages aren't considered human
(i.e. don't require birth/death certificates), but at least some kinds
of stillbirths do. This can sometimes create a problem when adults are
asked to name what they don't consider nameable, as it wasn't ever, to
them, human.

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Tristan                  <kesuari@...>

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