I found a blog with a bunch of the definitions
https://www.neatorama.com/2022/03/09/Leading-Causes-of-Deaths-in-London-1632/
Thanks. I have so many questions about some of these. Cut of the stone, king’s evil, Planet, rising of the lights, teeth… I’m mostly curious what king’s evil is in this context. Gonna go look Edit: per the link it’s scrofula.
Thank you!
Made away themselves.
Ah British dancing around the point terms.
“Unalive” is the current dance. Euphemism isn’t new.
Just trying to avoid the YouTube censors
beware!
tf is King’s Evil?
“Killed by several accidents.”
lol.
Hah! Gonna take more’n ONE accident to kill me, you bastards!!!
Chrisomes : died while under a month old.
“And in other news, the death figures were released today. Once again, the leading cause of death is: being a baby. Over the last year, 2,268 infants died naturally of babyness.”
Spawnkill
“Suddenly” 😂
Ded .- RIP
I’m not half the man I used to be
You can read about the modern meanings of the words here:
https://mylittlebird.com/2021/03/public-health-stats-on-disease-in-1600s-london/
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.”
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.
Imagine being proudly offed by Pluto and then they make it not a planet any more.
And so they have to change it to “celestial body” in the obituary
I would want “lump of star shit” in my obit.
Spelling “Lunatic” as “Lunatique” now. Shout out to the poor folks that just died in the street and starved. Surprised it’s only 6.
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.
I didn’t even think of that. Thank you for the info!
oh, cool - RFKs suggested DSM just dropped!
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.
This is just the extended discography of a gothic folk metal band?
Someone vomitted to death. I’d probably rather the cancer and wolf combo.
“Over-laid” sounds like death by snu-snu.
I volunteer!
Grief
So death by heartbreak is possible
