What’s your most anticipated banger?
Someone needs to post detailed explanation of all those things. I hope it doesn’t have to be me.
Found this: https://mediachomp.com/cause-of-deaths-in-london-in-1632/
My favorite: Thrush = yeast overgrowth / yeast infection of mouth (or genitals)
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Deleted by creator seems like a helluva way to go
I need to be part of that metal band
Shit I laughed aloud
I am going to die of Planet after I forget my parachute while sky diving.
How’d crackhappy die? Oh you know, PLANET.
That planet appeared really suddenly!
You’d think it would have taken a few others with it as well. Like, the rest of humanity.
“dead in the street, and starved”
“Bleeding” isn’t exactly “Fucked with a Knife” but Fucked with a Knife is a track on The Bleeding by Cannibal Corpse.
Sciatica-ed to death
I would have died because teeth back then, for sure
It likely meant getting an abscess from an infected tooth which lead to sepsis. We’re really lucky to have modern medicine.
Oh, like that guy ICE killed recently.
Unfortunately, barbarism is alive and well in our world.
The fact that infants dying is the highest by far just shows how cruel nature is without modern medicine and birthing practices
I read somewhere that it’s actually an efficient method of nature … babies that won’t make it anyways die early so you waste fewer resources on them. it’s called fail fast
Funny, when you apply that to biology, I think it changes its name to “eugenics”.
in college, i did a fair amount of number crunching on mortality statistics and the demographic transition. here’s some numbers i remember from the 1700s:
life expectancy: 40
life expectancy at age 20: 72
modern medicine has not added much to our longevity, we’ve just gotten rid of childhood mortality.Tuberculosis (consumption) was another constant killer, coming in at second.
I’ve spent more time than I care to admit reading Wikipedia entries on significant people from past centuries. Way too often their life story is full of disease and death. A dozen siblings. All of them suffer the same disease in childhood. Half of them don’t make it to adulthood. Mother dies during childbirth. Father struggles making money from their creative work, dies in a duel. Subject cared for by wealthy uncle. Is affected for the remainder of their life by the lingering effects of the childhood disease. Repeat for the next generation.
“King’s evil”
Political bars.
It was a lymph node disorder, commonly caused by tuberculosis.
The axe, or hanging, or drawing and quartering, etc. Not often old age in prison so much.
Seems more like band names to me… and according to the Encyclopedia Metallum, these are already used:
Stillborn, Aged, Apoplex, Bleeding, Flux, Sores, Burnt, Scalded, Burst, Rupture, Cancer, Wolf, Canker, Cold, Cough, Strangury, Consumption, Convulsion, Starved, Drowned, Executed, Falling Sickness, Fever, Fistula, Gangrene, Gout, Grief, King’s Evil, Lethargie, Spleen, Sciatica, Teeth, Thrush, and Worms
You’re doing important work here, thank you.
Rising of the lights!
Apparently any condition that caused lots of coughing.
Not explained enough. wtf is?
rising by the lights. killed off by a joker running something through the night?
I thought cancer was invented in the '60s
Fistula… I’m scared to search that…
Yeah, you’re right to feel that way.
It’s a generic term for an open hole between two spaces where there should be a wall. The two spaces might include “outside”, but could be two internal spaces (e.g. between the intestine and abdominal cavity)
Yep, and even worse, one of the classic ones is rectovaginal. Fortunately modern medicine can fix it
You don’t have to. Here, I’ll tell you: It’s when your asshole sprouts another asshole.
It can also be when toothdecay spreads sideways through your mouth. That’d probably kill you a lot more readily back then
Cancer (and wolf)
Hard to say which one finished them off. Better put both.
“Be careful, my relative tried chemo for the first time and died 3 days later to a wolf attack.”
The wolves can smell the chemo, it’s like marinade for them.
at least 7 people had a fetish for succubus-nurses.
Damn. That fever will get you.
Planet.
“Sir how did your wife pass?”
“Planet.”
“pardon?”
“Mars got her.”
“Mars?”
“yes, The Planet. slings bow over his back and gathers arrows Mars.”
