Re: My mom was just diagnosed with the start of COPD what to know.

Your oral view of the world comes from our American heritage.  Shove a rubber nipple in the baby's mouth at birth and if he's male, chop off the end of his penis - 75% of the time without a pain suppressant.  If you don't think that makes the child angry (particularly men) then you know little of the human body and yes, we remember each and everything that has happened in our life including conception.

America is one of the most oral societies ever to inhabit the Planet.  It is mostly due to our incessant search for for the tit that the vast majority of us never had.  

You are an eternal spirit.  When this body dies, you trade it in and get another one.  Each visit to the Planet is a spiritual learning experience and when you've learned your lessons you go on to other realities.  Again, everything you have experienced here on Planet Earth is simply a learning experience and you have created everything that ever happened in your life - rubber nipple, circumcision, cancer, heart disease, malaria (the world's leading killer) everything.

Enjoy eternity because it is happening now.