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.

My mum and I would both have likely died during birth (breech, forceps delivery)

I'll be dead now because of Familial Hypercholesterolemia, really need my statins to be alive!

Probably not. Measles aged 4 (pre MMR). Ongoing /multiple UTIs. I'm really shortsighted so may have been trampled down by a horse or something. If that didn't get me I would have died in childbirth with my first.
Great thread. I think about this often 🤣

I've really rubbish eyesight and couldn't swim as a child (well, until I was 27) so my fate would probably have been tripping over a muddy rut in the road and falling into a roadside ditch where I drowned. Most regrettable.

Happened a LOT in medieval times, drowning in ditches, so seems a fair assumption. I've been incredibly lucky to have had good health and no major crises, but who knows.

I'd be dead.due to severe graves. It developed when I was about 29/30.

I think I'd be alive at 54, surprisingly. But DM would definitely have died at about 12 years, so..

I'd have been a child bride and died from child birth

I don’t think I would have survived, I was more than 2 months premature.

Still going strong at nearly 50.

I very nearly died in childbirth in this century, there's no way I'd have survived it in 16th century. 😞

Whooping Cough at 18 mths so I suspect not.

If I’d survived the pneumonia I had as a baby I’d be dead now as I’m steroid dependant ( Addisons disease) .

Probably wouldn’t have survived the many childhood bouts of tonsillitis before having them removed aged 11, or the serious case of chickenpox might have done for me a few years later, or if that didn’t work then the measles aged 20 would have definitely been curtains.

Certainly wouldn’t have lived long enough to need the emergency c-section during DS’s birth.

If I'd made it to 30 I'd have died of ovarian cancer - but then I wouldn't have ever been on the pill and would probably have already had several children by then so maybe I wouldn't have got it, who knows.

If I'd survived my own forceps birth I might still be alive but I'd probably be incontinent following an unrepaired third degree tear in childbirth.

Thing is, the fact that we’re all here to post this today tells us that our ancestors were hardy folks who survived at least long enough to have children - and presumably look after them long enough to keep them alive. So in that sense we all hit the genetic jackpot.

I think I would have made it to the ripe old age of 33 when I gave birth to my second child and would have bled to death.

That’s probably because they were drunk all the time. Water wasn’t safe to drink, but ale was.
Women were only allowed 10 points a day, and children under 10 were allowed 8. Or some such. They must have been continually tipsy.

I would have died in childbirth aged 23, with my son. He was stuck.
If I was ever born. My Dad would’ve died from astma before he turned 10.

Same, with my first for sure.

I haven't had any medical emergencies, but I had terrible eyesight (think not being able to see the big letter from 10 feet) so I have often pondered what would have happened to me ,as I certainly would not have been a productive member of society. At best I would have set the house on fire 😆 Sounds very cheesy but I often give thanks that I was born in the 20th century.

I'd have died in childbirth if I made it that far

Great thread OP, gives you perspective as to how lucky we are.

I would have died during my own birth. Difficult forceps delivery. Otherwise typhoid in my teens.

Possibly due to being a rhesus baby.

After that, I might have had a stroke or heart attack by now due to high blood pressure.

Maybe would have got sepsis from an infection.

I’d have died of a rare condition called epiglottitis aged 4 (caused by HiB which is now part of childhood vaccinations). I owe my life to a trainee anaesthetist who guessed what it was and intubated me. So no, I’d be brown bread in the 16th century!!

I would have died in childbirth, if my brittle asthma hadn't ruined me first