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.

Oh god. Anyway, that’s a link to world population graphs. Clearly showing how few humans there were 🫣

I would have been burnt at the stake

I can't dilate fully so would definitely have died in childbirth age 35, but obviously as I would have been pregnant MUCH earlier than that, I would have died around 16.

If I managed to avoid death by childbirth to my current ripe old age, my truly terrible eyesight and clumsiness would probably mean I'd fall into a well or onto a pike or over a ditch or similar...

I’d have died before I was born as my mother had appendicitis when she was pregnant with me.

For heresy, yes. Not witchcraft.

Definitely heresy :)

A LOT of women died in childbirth before the advent of modern medicine.

A lot of women still do

I reckon that by the age of 35 I would have died a minimum of four times, quite reasonably six or seven (depending if my immune system could cope with gallbladder colics or infected teeth without support). Of course, I'd not have been able to see much after about age 5 without complex glasses too.

Had a google... apparently the country with the highest maternal mortality rate is south Sudan...with just over 1200 per 100,000. The UK is about 9 per 100,000. Norway is the lowest at zero.

I have thought about this over the years - I had surgery when I was 8 years old for a congenital abnormality of the small intestine. After weeks of severe stomach pain I started passing blood and was in hospital for about a week before they worked out what was causing it and then operated.

So, yeah, I would almost certainly have died before I was 9 years old as the bleeding would have continued and worsened.

Similar story here! Severely myopic BUT imagining I lived with my 14th great grandfather there'd have been plenty of money to take care of me at least 😅

Yes. They do.
But a lot less than before.
See stats above.

I'd have probably died at 17 from an especially nasty chest infection.

Cleft palate so would've died shortly after birth from.infection or starvation..unless I got murdered for being a devil child.
If by some miracle I got old enough to have children I would've died during c section.

Wouldn't have survived birth, neither would my mum.

I’d have died from appendicitis, been crippled by joint issues, and my children would have been ostracized at best or died at worst from cleft lip and palate related issues.

thank goodness for the NHS!

I haven't read the whole thread so apologies if someone has mentioned this but the author Maggie O'Farrell wrote a book called "I am, I am, I am - 17 Brushes with Death" which is all about how she nearly died, yes 17 times!

I’d have died in childbirth

I’d not have made it out of infancy, as I had a nasty dose of meningitis that tried its best to carry me off.