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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that people who survived childbearing years, and people who didn't go to war, barring disease and illness (which were common obvs) then there are plenty of examples of people living long lives. Yes, even regular people. Not talking monks or whatever.
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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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Replying to @AdmiralHip
I would have died of being gored by an ox. Honestly the "I would have been burned because I like cats" ones are the ones that really annoy the fuck out of me
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Yeah omg like...no. Nooooo.
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