answer:Because most of our classic children’s songs and nursery rhymes were written during a time when death was viewed as a part of every day life. Now we have become so overly concerned with shielding our children along with the rest of polite society from the realities of life there are those that seem to think that someone who doesn’t have a problem butchering a rabbit to make a stew borders on being a dangerous psychopath. However, back in the day those songs and rhymes were written it wasn’t uncommon for grandma to kill over dead in the living room (as opposed to a sterile hospital room out of sight of the kids), have mom pass away from the plague in her own bedroom, or watch as little billy fell in the well and drowned.