That medieval death thing floating around is irritating me, because it fundamentally lacks an understanding of the extent of what people had to deal with. However: some people go way in the opposite direction and say, oh well I'd have died at 23 for X reason
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Infant mortality was high, childbirth mortality was high, but people were not just en masse dying young.
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in any event there were plenty of things you could die of that we see as preventable now that were not preventable then. And there were also lots of preventable things too!
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Idk it just tend to elide the vastness of the human experience in the past, and the variety of live and lives that we see from settlements and burials.
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