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There is so much death in the world. Death of the elderly, sad, yet expected. Death of the seriously ill. Another sad, but slightly expected. But one of the worst types of death is a child's death. They could die in a fire, or they could have even been shot. Death is so unfortunate. A child should not suffer the worlds evils. Adults pass that on to children then those children pass that on to their children and it is a never ending cycle.

I was born to a family of three. Or what I once thought was three. Later in life, just a few years ago actually, I found out that my mother had aborted her first child. The second I heard that I started crying, crying for that lost child. Who would have been my older brother right now. I feel that abortion is killing that unborn baby. I know that many people have different views on it, but this is how I feel. I think abortion is wrong and should be stopped.

Car accidents are a huge cause of children deaths. Some kids don't have their belts on right, some don't even have their belts on at all. I used to know a little girl who died at the age of eleven because she was involved in a car accident. Her name was Jordyn. She had her belt on and she was sitting in the back seat of the car just like her brother told her to do. Shortly after they had left the library a drunk driver ran a red light and smashed into her side of the car. She did not die on impact. She held on for thirty more minutes, in the hospital. But she did die. Her twelfth birthday was twenty-one days away.

Child abuse is another huge cause of death. I mean, come on people, why have the kid if all you're going to do to it is treat it like that? Child abuse is wrong. I think if you're caught abusing your child then you should get the death penalty.

Death is sad. Death is unexpected. Hell, death is one of the worst things that could happen to us. But death is brought to some children to early. I think stealing that innocence from children is wrong. And if someone kills a child I think that person should either go to jail for life, or get the death penalty. I know that may sound very cruel of me, but I don't think so. No child, no child deserves to die. No baby deserves to be aborted. No child deserves to die in a car accident. And no child deserves to be abused until they die. Though death, is inevitable.

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