The Wretched Fate Game
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anteros_lmcHere's something silly to distract ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
eglantine_br from her noisy mariachi playing neighbours. Yes, it's Slate's Interactive Game of Death! What better way to cheer yourself up than to find out how you'd have died at different times in history?! As the article explains:
In case you're wondering, I died six times in 1801. Four times of consumption and twice of pulmonic fever. I'm kind of hoping that if I spin the wheel often enough "noble self sacrifice to save beloved from deranged captain and vindictive courtmartial" will turn up :}
eglantine_br from her noisy mariachi playing neighbours. Yes, it's Slate's Interactive Game of Death! What better way to cheer yourself up than to find out how you'd have died at different times in history?! As the article explains: If you’ve ever fantasized about traveling back in time, this game is for you. Pick a year on the timeline and spin the wheel of fortune. If you had existed back then, what would have killed you? Our tool serves up causes of death in proportion to how many lives they claimed in the chosen year. The earliest data come from parish records or local “bills of mortality,” lists of how many people died of various causes in a given year.
Spin the wheel as many times as you like—you get infinite reincarnations. Not that you would want to be reborn many times in, say, 1811 if you could help it, though. It was a lousy time to be a human but a great time to be a germ—sewage mixed with drinking water, houses were cold and crowded and ridden with vermin, and everybody coughed tuberculosis bacilli on one another. Go ahead, face your fate!
In case you're wondering, I died six times in 1801. Four times of consumption and twice of pulmonic fever. I'm kind of hoping that if I spin the wheel often enough "noble self sacrifice to save beloved from deranged captain and vindictive courtmartial" will turn up :}
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Date: 2013-09-25 09:52 am (UTC)My favourite is dropsy: a) because it's a funny word and b) because I know what it is, i.e. I'm familiar with the English term, know what it describes and what it means in German. I am very proud of my knowledgableness
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Date: 2013-09-25 10:47 pm (UTC)I had to google dropsy. I had heard the term but had no idea it referred to oedema. This is soooo educational :)
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Date: 2013-09-26 10:43 pm (UTC)Hysteria sounds like a rather exciting way to go.
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Date: 2013-09-24 08:58 pm (UTC)***Scrofula is a form of TB. Makes sense.
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Date: 2013-09-25 10:49 pm (UTC)I perished from 'decay.' Is that a bit like ennui, I wonder?
Hmmm...not sure about that. Aren't you supposed to die before you decay? Ennui sounds gloriously romantic. Decay just sounds....messy :}
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Date: 2013-09-27 03:12 am (UTC)Ooh good point. I had in mind a sort of 'brain decay', where you just sort of ... crumble into boredom and die. But if your body's decaying with it, it could be both disgusting and rather inconvenient, as you try to pick something up and realise a finger's dropped off.
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Date: 2013-09-25 09:18 am (UTC)1801 I met my end by Consumption, Cholera infantum, Consumption, Hooping cough, Fever pulmonic and Hooping cough. I didn't realise hooping cough was such a problem.
1811 I died of Convulsions, Drowned, Consumption and cough, Worms and Consumption and cough again. Drowning by far sounds the most preferable.
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Date: 2013-09-25 10:51 pm (UTC)Drowning definitely sounds preferable. Unlike worms. Yeuch!
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Date: 2013-09-25 09:39 am (UTC)In 1811 I died of Flux infantile, Diseases not mentioned, Consumption and cough... What are diseases not mentioned? Now I'm really worried...
But you are right - it's a cheering game... sort of.
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Date: 2013-09-25 01:23 pm (UTC)and my demise were scarlet fever,diarrheas, diarrheas,consumption and cough and influenza
cheering to see how for some they are now most often non fatal things I suppose - at least for those of us forunate to live in places in the world which have few such diseases to contend with.
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