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 think I’d possibly be alive but good chance that my recurrent uti’s would have led to severe kidney infection which could have finished me off. At the very least I’d have led a very uncomfortable life in pain without antibiotics.

Quinsy may well have killed me off at 20, which in fairness seems more of an appropriate thing to have in the 16th century than in the 00’s.

Wow haven't ever thought about this. I wouldn't have survived my own birth as they had to do an emergency section on my mum as they lost my heartbeat. By some miracle if I had survived I'm assuming measles at 18 months would have finished me off.

No, I probably would have died from cervical cancer aged 31 years. I was actually cured with surgery and I’ve made it to 50 years so far.

I probably would have been burnt as a Witch for refusing to behave and shut up when men told me to.

Oh me too definitely- or I’d have been in a scolds bridle at the very least 😂

Yes, this. I like to pat myself on the back for surviving some shit stuff, particularly relating to child birth. But it doesn't necessarily mean I would have died, just that my chances were grim.
Reading this thread....no one survives.

If I had survived the usual childhood diseases then I would have died in childbirth or before due to pre eclampsia, or finished off by my gallstones, underactive thyroid, terrible teeth, and be blind from cataracts 😐

Apparently even if you survived your own birth and those of your children and didn't have any fatal diseases when young you would probably still be dead by 35. So I've outlived myself by nearly 30 years.

As a side note, do other animals on the planet have the same rate of near-death births as humans do you reckon? I always wonder that. It seems an incredibly risky / low chance of success thing for humans. Do cats and dogs etc have similar risks?

I wouldn't have survived being born. I was stuck and my mum needed an emergency caesarean. If I'd somehow survived that, having one of my own three giant babies would have probably finished me off.

Another one bleeding to death in childbirth. Or dying of sepsis from mastitis...

I would have died from either tonsillitis or urine infection. If survived these I would have later died from a perforated bowel from Crohn's disease. Unless back then I wouldn't have got Crohn's disease (maybe it's more common now)

I would have died at birth.

Yes. Every time I hear of someone free birthing to avoid interventions I think of all the bodies of lambs I've collected from fields where sheep have been lambing and think, great job nature.

If I’d survived the bacterial infection that got me hospitalised with sepsis in my 20s, I’d almost certainly have died when DS got stuck when I was giving birth to him.

I had an elective section so no idea if I would have survived natural childbirth. But I would have died a few years after of Strep anyway.

If an illness during childhood didn’t carry me off, then the pre-eclampsia in my first pregnancy would have.

I would have died of whooping cough as a baby

Nope, meningitis would've killed me off at 15.

Nope, I’d have died age 20 from kidney disease!

I had a twisted bowel at 16 so I wouldn't have made it to adulthood

That is interesting to hear - thank you for the insight. I don't know much about the topic.

That any hyena’s survive giving birth at all is something I find quite incredible.

Worth googling but it is wince inducing reading.

If by some miracle I'd have survived whooping cough, measles, chicken pox, mumps in my infancy, the leukaemia I contracted at 13 would have finished me off.

I wouldn’t have survived much past birth as I was premature and weighed just over 3lb.

If I did survive then probably mumps, measles or whooping cough or if I made it to adulthood it would have been childbirth (emcs).