It takes 40 weeks. It takes weeks for the embryo to get enough nutrients to mature into a baby. Even after those 40 weeks, it takes at least a few months of careful guarding of the infant to make sure he/she will be unharmed by his undeveloped bones. Subsequent to those few months, there are still decades upon decades of teaching him/her morals and ethnics to see him/her turn out right. However, it only takes a mere split second to take it all away. The poem Out, Out-- by Robert Frost, illustrates how subtle death can be. Death is unpredictable in many ways; it cannot be anticipated or escaped; it is a process of life.

The first nine lines of the poem describe the scenery and the setting of the poem. The buzz-saw "snarled and rattled" as it cuts the lumber into "stove-length sticks of wood...