What would have killed you?

theCzar · 19-04-2005 07:36PM #1

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 · 19-04-2005 07:45PM

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

penguinbloke · 19-04-2005 07:51PM

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 · 19-04-2005 07:52PM

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

Astro1996 · 19-04-2005 07:55PM

same here, too small

Adam · 19-04-2005 07:55PM

Ever healthy.

Karl Hungus · 19-04-2005 07:57PM

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

Rabies · 19-04-2005 08:00PM

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 · 19-04-2005 08:01PM

Ham

kjt · 19-04-2005 08:02PM

Nope still would be alive and kicking

....IF I was born in the same circumstances so's to speak

tSubh Dearg · 19-04-2005 08:04PM

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

Kernel · 19-04-2005 08:14PM

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

penguinbloke · 19-04-2005 08:14PM

Asok wrote:

Ham

The silent killer

netwhizkid · 19-04-2005 08:16PM

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 · 19-04-2005 08:22PM

Appendix also!

DrIndy · 19-04-2005 08:22PM

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 · 19-04-2005 08:25PM

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

Rhyme · 19-04-2005 08:33PM

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

beer enigma · 19-04-2005 08:34PM

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

NotMe · 19-04-2005 08:42PM

I would've died from chicken pox. Maybe.

Tiriel · 19-04-2005 08:43PM

Would tonsillitus kill you eventually? hmm..

theCzar · 19-04-2005 08:46PM

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

taby · 19-04-2005 08:57PM

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 · 19-04-2005 09:34PM

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 · 19-04-2005 09:41PM

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 · 19-04-2005 09:42PM

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 · 19-04-2005 10:14PM

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 · 19-04-2005 10:25PM

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

Hugh Hefner · 19-04-2005 11:24PM

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

12 years is really not enough.

funk-you · 19-04-2005 11:34PM

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

DublinWriter · 19-04-2005 11:35PM

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.

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