What would have killed you?

theCzar

Just had a rather morbid chat with some friends, about whether, had we been born in the middle ages, would we have lived as long as we have?

I'd have died of appendicitis aged 12, if my cronic short-sightedness hadn't killed me first.

puts things in perspective!

so, has modern medicine ever saved your life?

jesus_thats_gre

nothing, would still be alive and healthy. probably not overweight though

penguinbloke

Personally I wouldn't have been born.

My mother would have been married off before the age of sixteen and the whole series of events, that should never be mentioned, that resulted in my existance would never have come to pass.

Other than that I'd say pneumonia.

Stench Blossoms

I prob wouldnt have lived at all! Was too small when i was a baby

Astro1996

same here, too small

Adam

Ever healthy.

Karl Hungus

Hmm... My appendix would've probably erupted, taking out half the village.

Rabies

I prob would have had one of my many bad falls from a horse without skull protection and split my head of a rock

Asok

Ham

kjt

Nope still would be alive and kicking
....IF I was born in the same circumstances so's to speak

tSubh Dearg

I wouldn't exist and neither would my mother. She would've died in childbirth as i was a cesarean section baby.

Kernel

Jeez, natural selection would have taken out a lot of you genetically inferior mutants.

penguinbloke

Asok wrote:

Ham

The silent killer

netwhizkid

Thank the stars for modern medicine, I had pneumonia at 3 weeks old it was my mother that saved me our "intelligent" doctors wanted to send me home :rolleyes: as a kid between 5 and 15 i was kept alive by a steriod infused asthma inhaler, i took its toll around the waist but it kept me alive, thank you alen and hanburys. It still keeps me alive from time to time don't need it as much thanks to Michael Martin for stopping those ignoramusses from lighting up whenever they like. If only he'd ban the damned things.

Oh well i wouldnt even remeber life, if was born 30 years ago not a mind the middle ages.

Regards netwhizkid

Waltons

Appendix also!

DrIndy

I was an ever healthy youngster, only a couple of sprained ankles.

Might probably have died from a childhood infection we're all vaccinated against. Or maybe malnutrition.

case n basket

I'd probably be impaled or beheaded in battle by now.

Rhyme

Surprisingly enough i would still have an arrow sticking out from my eye and probably died from infection...

beer enigma

Meningitis aged 1yrs...and considering that was 39 yrs ago...I'm still flippin lucky to be here :eek:

NotMe

I would've died from chicken pox. Maybe.

Tiriel

Would tonsillitus kill you eventually? hmm..

theCzar

of course there's cholera, black plague and small pox as well, it's amazing the human race survived at all...

taby

I had baby janudis so may have died from that. Oh and than split white spirits on self. So i def wud be dead :-p

fun thoughts.....

Kernel

taby wrote:

I had baby janudis so may have died from that. Oh and than split white spirits on self. So i def wud be dead :-p

fun thoughts.....

They didn't have white spirits in the middle ages, so you would be grand!

Zaph

Maybe my asthma could have shortened my life, but I think more likely I'd have ended up a blind cripple begging on the streets due to my pretty poor eyesight and the bad leg injury I had a few years back that would possibly have meant amputation. Of course then I'd probably get some wound infection which would polish me off.

embee

I had my appendix out when I was 21, so perhaps that.

If not that, then almost certainly tonsilitis. I've been hospitalized four times for that, and all because of the skyrocketing fever I got from it.

Daelus

I'd be either dead because of a kidney failure or tonsilitis(?). If not, I'd have become a bum due to my godawful hearing.

I was also born a few weeks premature, maybe that would have killed me too.

Wow. :rolleyes:

Blisterman

I'd probebly still be alive. Survival of the fittest.

Hugh Hefner

Yeah, appendicitis would have killed me. Or rather, the unanethetised appendectomy.

12 years is really not enough.

funk-you

Leperacy............that or beheading.

DublinWriter

theCzar wrote:

Just had a rather morbid chat with some friends, about whether, had we been born in the middle ages, would we have lived as long as we have?

Ah yes, but invert the arguement! At least people in the middle ages didn't get to die from car-accidents, AIDS, 'Friendly' Fire, MSRA and a 5 day wait in the Matter.

Xcom2

Yikes! :eek:

I've never had a broken bone or a major illness in my life.

I'm not normal am I?(can see myself spending more time in PI).

Get my couch ready Beruthiel I'm coming in heavy!

X

smileygal

Comnbination of Tonsilitis/some other fever & the damp Irish weather without electricity or central heating

Kernel

Xcom2 wrote:

Yikes! :eek:

I've never had a broken bone or a major illness in my life.

I'm not normal am I?(can see myself spending more time in PI).

Get my couch ready Beruthiel I'm coming in heavy!

X

She'd just ban you for breaking the medical advice charter!

Pyr0

DublinWriter wrote:

Ah yes, but invert the arguement! At least people in the middle ages didn't get to die from car-accidents, AIDS, 'Friendly' Fire, MSRA and a 5 day wait in the Matter.

Aye you could be killed by Friendly fire,you know Medievil battles could be very confusing

nesf

Spent the first two weeks of my life in an incubator, so that probably would be me dying after my birth.

If I survived that, 2 bout of the whooping cough while I was very young (5 or so) would probably have done for me. There were a few necessary operations in my 10th year that would have made life really nasty if they weren't carried out.

And then that combined pneumonia in one lung and pleuresy in the other lung at the same time that I picked up at age 19 would definitely have killed me, I barely survived it with modern medical care!

Those were the major things, other things like asthma were also present in my life but they weren't life threatening at any point.

the_syco

Hmmm... a car hit me, and put me into a coma for 3 days, when I was about 12. Without modern medicine, I'd be dead, but in the middle ages, there'd be no cars... :rolleyes:

Infini

Be alive and healthy but would probably be half-way to Japan by now!

the_syco

DublinWriter wrote:

Ah yes, but invert the arguement! At least people in the middle ages didn't get to die from car-accidents, AIDS, 'Friendly' Fire, MSRA and a 5 day wait in the Matter.

If a horse ran you over, you'd be fecked. No ambulance.

AIDS... maybe not, but there's alot of other nasty sh|t out there.

'Friendly' Fire... it wouldn't be an accident. And they'd finish you off!

theCzar

doggiepaw wrote:

I used to work in superquinn as a lil un, at the end of the day we had to get all those bins you see round the shops and empty them into a big ass compressor in the back of a shop, it was like the back of a binlorry, huge big jaws squashing rubbish, grabbed a bin one day and went to empty it in, the metal bin inside the plastic fell into the compressor so i hops in to fish it out, someone comes in, fecks a big black bag in ontop of me and turns the compressor on, that nearly killed me, gave me a sore throat from all the screaming anyway

yikes! :eek:

no trash compactors in the middle ages, they just fling it on the street in order to promote disease, which kills you!

Wibbs

I've made it to the grand old age of 37 without any medical intervention to speak of. I've never had an antibiotic and the only vaccination I've had is for polio when I was a kid. I'm lucky though as my family are very long lived so maybe that's part of it.

I'm quite surprised at the amount of things like asthma that people here have gone through. I would say that in my age group(among my friends, etc.), it seems to be quite rare. Especially the more life threatening condition described by some. I only know one girl with hay fever and it's of the very mild kind.

Shyster

Asthma is more common in children now than it was in children say 30 years ago, its a thing you grow out of usually so it would be more common in young people. Im sure theres a medical way of saying all that...?!

Gurgle

Another genetically programmed survivor here.

Actually, I'd have much fewer scars, as they didn't have motorbikes, barbed wire, mountain bikes, or swiss army knives back then.

On the other hand, I probably would have been swinging from the gallows at an early age.

WizZard

I'd still be alive...

Dr. Loon

I'd be grand, although I'd probably have had a limb lopped off, as I stole things when I was a kid. Or, if sleeping pills existed then, I'd be dead, as I ate quite a large amount when I was young.

*Sassy*

Great thread!

It's so strange to think about this. A huge amount of people would never have reached puberty, and those who did were more likely to die in their 20s. The oldest people must have been in their 40s!

I probably would have died when I was born, was in an incubator for 6 or 8 weeks, can't remember. Had the usual ailments as a kid, chicken pox, mumps etc. The flu would probably have killed a lot of people. If I managed to survive all that I mostly likely would have been killed while rambling into the pen of a mad goat or something cos I am as blind as a bat (well, before my laser eye surgery I was!).

BrokenArrows

ah ive had no need for medical science in my life-time thankfully. But probably would have been killed in a duel defending my honour etc. LOL.

Well if any of us lived in the 1300's 1 in 3 of us would die from the black death.

seamus

Meningitis would have gotten me, aged two. If not, I'd still be kicking.

theCzar

*Sassy* wrote:

Great thread!

aw shucks

BrokenArrows wrote:

Well if any of us lived in the 1300's 1 in 3 of us would die from the black death.

what if it had killed the 1/3 of people that would have survived the surprisingly vast array of illnessess posted here... and there'd be nobody left. except for Charlton Heston, he's a survivor

pickarooney

Pneumonia would have done for me for sure, if measles hadn't got me first. Or famine, I was a very picky eater.

Lump

I'd have died from the 6 hour coma I was in when I was 14... or 15.

John