Young women - and insects and animals - give birth, old women tend family graves, families gather around an ageing relative in a hospital ward, a single flower blooms amid a vast sea of green leaves.
However, he was always reflecting upon the pains of birth, old age, disease and the sufferings of this miserable and transitory world.
Even if women who are delivered by emergency cesarean section or instrumental vaginal delivery have a much more negative experience than after a spontaneous vaginal birth, older women seem to be better prepared to manage this experience than younger women.
Common risk factors for adverse fetal development include ethnicity (Thompson et al., 2001), smoking and alcohol use (Jaddoe et al., 2007), previous children with low birthweight or preterm birth, older maternal age and low socioeconomic status (Silva et al., 2010).
Having denser breasts was associated with younger age, lower body mass index, older age at menarche, smaller number of live births, older age at first live birth, and a history of having used hormone replacement therapy (Table 1).
However, some increase in spontaneous preterm birth and spontaneous early term birth may have occurred because of increases in other factors such as multiple births, older maternal age and parity.
Possible explanations for these high rates include the increases in multiple births, older maternal age, elective caesarean sections before 37 weeks of gestation, and the use of assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization.
The characteristic features of skin change from the time of birth to old age.
But 30 years after its birth, regular old Diet Coke remains "the world's liquid crack of choice".
Plus the poignant "Underbelly", which ponders the helplessness of birth and old age without too much cliche, suggests the band's literary sensibility is no student put-on.
We could make it the other life bookend to Medicare, the piece that sustains life between birth and old age.
