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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Bacteria Virus Cancer Heart Condition Trauma Malnutrition Suicide Kidney Disease Heart Disease Liver Disease Parasite

What else am I missing?

Mostly, they died from a lack of medical knowledge.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Bit with a mad dog

This makes it seem like someone wielded the dog as a weapon

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Maybe it was a comedy bit

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 months ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

French pox.... CK3 RP incoming

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (2 children)

"Killed by several accidents."

lol.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Maybe they mean lupus? I think wolfes were already extinct in the 1600s on the British isles.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago

It wasn't cancer cancer, it was a big crab that lived in the Thames that hung out with a wolf.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Imagine being proudly offed by Pluto and then they make it not a planet any more.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And so they have to change it to "celestial body" in the obituary

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I would want "lump of star shit" in my obit.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I didn't even think of that. Thank you for the info!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Murthered

Out in the streets they call it merther

When rhythm spacing out your head

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Thanks. That’s helpful. And because I had to know:

Among unfathomable “Diseases and Casualties,” Planet (or plannet) was “likely a shorthand for “planet-struck [because] Many medical practitioners believed the planets influenced health and sanity.” The label applied to any sudden illness or death, such as a heart attack or aneurysm, according to “15 Historic Diseases that Competed with Bubonic Plague.”

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