Would you still be alive if you lived in the 16th century?

[LittleMosIron]

I would have died aged 7 from appendicitis. If not then childbirth or an infected tooth would have finished me off in my early 20's.

I would have died aged about 40 from peritonitis caused by my gallbladder being infected and bursting. If a now-eradicated disease hadn’t carried me off before that.

Rich women would have been married off by their families to enhance status or aquire land. A boy would have been required to pass on the wealth.Poor women had to find a husband because they would have been one of many within the home and there wouldn't have been enough resources to go around. So off you go and live with your husband.
There was no such thing as marital rape. Women , and all their wordly goods, became the property of their husband to do with as he wished. If he wanted sex he was going to have sex. After all, he wasn't the one who was going to die in childbirth. And it was unlikely he would be there during the birth.

I had this aged 39. Would have died without emergency surgery to remove part of my bowel and a large section of colon.

No. I’d have been nigh-on blind from birth, probably pretty crippled from the endless breaks and dislocations I suffer from and eventually died age 28 from sepsis. I nearly did die as it was, caught just in time, a matter of hours apparently.

I would have survived. With a mane of hair, 6 extra adult teeth, a moustache, slight beard and unibrow.

I'd probably have died when I had double pneumonia at the age of 2.

I expect I also would have probably died in childbirth (big PPH) but before that I would have had a badly deformed arm from a terrible break when I was 7!

Apart from needing to be born by Emcs therefore probably not surviving birth, I would have probably died from febrile seizures as a toddler, possibly measles and/or mumps then my overactive thyroid would have finished the job in my early thirties!

I genuinely give thanks often for having been born in the era of modern medicine but I do wonder what conditions people die from today that will look laughable in fifty years time...? Bloody Alzheimers for one!

I would have died multiple times, firstly at Birth, then from a poisoned leg when I was about 7, then high blood pressure and pre eclampsia would have finished me off for good

Lots of poor women stayed single; so did lots of poor men. Less common for aristocratic women and men.

I know marital rape was only criminalised in 1991, but I am reading a book written in the fourteenth century where a woman argues against her husband when he wants to have sex with her, and eventually persuades him to live in a sexless marriage.

Just about. Unless bad water etc got me. I don’t think my children would have survived though as I didn’t have enough breastmilk

I was conceived via IVF so wouldn't even have been born

I had measles as a baby, cat scratch fever when I was 4, a nasty dose of flu when I was 5. . .I don't think I'd have lasted long and if I'd made it to adulthood, I'd have had to negotiate pregnancy and childbirth. In this reality, I don't know how I'd have fared (no children) but in a world where queens died in childbed, let alone peasant women, I wouldn't put money on my chances.

Would have died age 17 from type 1 diabetes

Probably every one on here has at some point need an antibiotic the very absence of it,would have seen us off.
As a child , lots of quite bad chest infections would have have done me in , likewise a dog bite when I was 3 .
I think I'd been lucky to make age 10 .

Even as recently as 100 yrs ago I'd have died of pernicious anaemia.

Age 16, Glandular Fever which I was in hospital with on and off 8 weeks

Witches were hanged in England (unless you're in Scotland) and actually much lower number than people might imagine.

Not the point, but an interesting topic!

I'd have died in child birth along with my child. If I hadn't I'd have died from ectopic pregnancy or from the missed miscarriage I needed a blood transfusion for or from my 4th difficult labour.
Come to think of it I was not meant to have been a mum. But here we all are.

I'd have died in childbirth....

If I'd survived birth, which is unlikely as I was breech and my mother had to have a c-section (which would have finished her off as well) my appalling eyesight would no doubt have resulted in an unfortunate accident at some point. That's if the measles didn't get me first.

Are you a werewolf?

My mum had polio as a young child and probably only survived because she was given some of the precursor medication to antibiotics. They were only supposed to be available to troops during the war but her doctor got hold of some for her.

Then I was born not breathing and both she and I nearly died even in 1960s. I was injected directly into the heart with adrenaline and she had massive blood loss and a transfusion. I'm guessing even if she had survived the polio, my birth would have done for both of us.

If I survived childhood then I am pretty sure I would have died during childbirth after first birth as my blood group is Rhesus Negative.

I think I'd have had a chance, if I made it through bouts of various childhood infections requiring antibiotics.
Other than that I entered the world without intervention and delivered my own DC without intervention or significant pregnancy complications so may well have survived childbirth.