I have always struggled with the concept of perinatal death.
At which point do we gain consciousness? I don’t remember.
While the economic and social disparities are of concern, it seems that the greatest injustice of all is that some will live a hundred years, while some will die after a minute.
How could anybody be at peace with a universe that creates such injustice?
Eventually yesterday, I have found a way to approach the problem that could be of interest, the best I could find so far anyway.
Even if you were to live for three thousand years or ten times as long, you should still remember this, that no one loses any life other than the one that he is living, nor does he live any life other than the one that he loses, so the shortest life and the longest amount to the same. For the present is equal for all, and what is passing must be equal also, so what can be lost is shown to be nothing more than a moment; and no one could lose either the past or the future, for how could he be deprived of what he does not possess? So always bear in mind these two points: firstly that all things are alike in nature from all eternity and recur in cycles, and it therefore makes no difference whether one sees the same spectacle for a hundred years or two hundred or for time everlasting; and secondly that the longest-lived and the earliest to die suffer an equal loss; for it is solely of the present moment that each will be deprived, if it is really the case that this is all he has and a person cannot lose what he does not have.
Marcus Aurelius Meditations (meditation 14)