They DO, don't they? I took a buttload of pictures and hardly used any... firelight on either side, but moonlight from the front.

Exactly. There were kind of a lot of things that could kill you.

And that sounds like a great idea for a mod, even if all you get for the infant death is a tombstone, not a death animation, since you're not supposed to screw around with the Reaper. (Although even if he just came, picked up the baby, and went away, leaving a tombstone...)