• captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    8 minutes ago

    I never thought to combine deaths by cancer and by wolves to save space or because they’re similar enough. I can’t comprehend why they thought it was a good idea either.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    2 hours ago

    You guys are all laughing about ‘planet,’ but I’ll have you know my uncle died of a cerebral hemorrhage when Neptune hit him on the back of the head. And we all thought it was just a glancing blow, but two days later, he dropped dead right in the middle of the supermarket.

    You won’t laugh so hard when it happens to someone you care about.

  • 2ugly2live@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    3 hours ago

    Spelling “Lunatic” as “Lunatique” now. Shout out to the poor folks that just died in the street and starved. Surprised it’s only 6.

    • Khanzarate@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 hours ago

      Most that would die in the street would have an underlying condition, like ague or bleeding or even old age, since most people that starve would try to do something about it.

      If you’re sick you might not be able to. If you find a job or charity successfully you’ve averted the death. If you tried to steal and fail you’ll get on the executed list, or if you got wounded but got away, you’ll be on the bleeding list, or if you succeed then you dont die on the street.

      I imagine those six would have the “died of unknown causes” phrase attached to them in modern times.

  • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
    15·
    5 hours ago

    I saw this list on hidden killers of the Tudor home (even though this list is post-Tudor era). The specifically spoke about the ‘teeth’ part.

    Basically what that mean was that a variety of tooth decay and oral issues pertaining to the teeth. This was an era that first saw a large consumption of sugar (which as you know LOVES to fuck with teeth) by wealthier people and coupled with a nonexistent oral hygiene practice and dentistry. Basically people’s teeth would decay and cause gum disease or simply a shitload of pain that even the painful teeth pulling couldn’t fully fix.

    One thing that you must remember is that prior to widespread sugar availability most people’s teeth were remarkably fine throughout life as people’s diets didn’t contain enough crap that will mess your teeth up. Of course this isn’t to say that it was perfect. Braces would have been a good thing to have for many people and a simple toothbrush with half decent toothpaste would have been a very welcomed thing.

    • arc@lemm.eeEnglish
      8·
      4 hours ago

      RFK jr will do his damndest to ensure bad teeth becoming a leading cause of death. Right behind measles, flu, polio and other communicable diseases.

    • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      7·
      5 hours ago

      It’s the reason why so many misleading statistics claim a much shorter lifespan in the past. If you survived childhood, and there wasn’t a plague around, or a war, you had good chances of reaching 60.

      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 minutes ago

        Life expectancy from birth is easily the most misleading statistic in the history of the social sciences because it is a measure of central tendency (aka an average, specifically, a median) of a property (age at death) that not only has no central tendency but actually has the opposite of a central tendency, with values concentrated at the low end (infant and child mortality) and the high end (old age deaths). In almost all societies ever measured, the life expectancy from birth age is usually the age at which a person is least likely to die.