Darwin lived to 73 when life expectancy was under 40. FuckFace McTotalGym has the advantage of means in a society where everything you need for a long and healthy life costs more than what most can afford.
Also, the condition he had would today be called a coronary thrombosis, and would be treated with either a stent or coronary bypass surgery. Neither of which, of course, existed in the 1880s. If he were alive today, his condition could be treated with what is considered a routine surgical procedure. Or, alternatively, managed decades earlier with a change of diet and cholesterol medication.
Darwin died of what is, today, both preventable and treatable heart disease.
But religion got us those medical advances, right? It was only through fervent prayer that those procedures were created, right? Or some mystery of the Bible made manifest through a devotion to Scripture, right?
Just like somebody surviving a surgery and saying “I prayed and look what happened! Thank the Lord!” No, thank the surgeon and the countless medical professionals that preceded them.
To be fair (to be faaaaaair), average life expectancy then, and throughout basically all of history, was dramatically reduced by super high infant/child mortality. Most people who made it to adulthood lived a lot longer than 40. Darwin was actually a pretty normal age to die even then. Especially since he wasn’t subject to the other big killer of the young, dying in childbirth.
To be clear, I’m not endorsing whatever the hell this meme is, I’m just super into history and life expectancy is a really interesting topic (to me, at least, I’m sure most people think it’s super lame).
Darwin lived to 73 when life expectancy was under 40. FuckFace McTotalGym has the advantage of means in a society where everything you need for a long and healthy life costs more than what most can afford.
Also, the condition he had would today be called a coronary thrombosis, and would be treated with either a stent or coronary bypass surgery. Neither of which, of course, existed in the 1880s. If he were alive today, his condition could be treated with what is considered a routine surgical procedure. Or, alternatively, managed decades earlier with a change of diet and cholesterol medication.
Darwin died of what is, today, both preventable and treatable heart disease.
But religion got us those medical advances, right? It was only through fervent prayer that those procedures were created, right? Or some mystery of the Bible made manifest through a devotion to Scripture, right?
Just like somebody surviving a surgery and saying “I prayed and look what happened! Thank the Lord!” No, thank the surgeon and the countless medical professionals that preceded them.
To be fair (to be faaaaaair), average life expectancy then, and throughout basically all of history, was dramatically reduced by super high infant/child mortality. Most people who made it to adulthood lived a lot longer than 40. Darwin was actually a pretty normal age to die even then. Especially since he wasn’t subject to the other big killer of the young, dying in childbirth.
To be clear, I’m not endorsing whatever the hell this meme is, I’m just super into history and life expectancy is a really interesting topic (to me, at least, I’m sure most people think it’s super lame).
I appreciate this comment. Not something I had ever considered.
Legit, talk to me when norris hits 110
…and with a lifetime of 19th-century healthcare
And extremely wealthy which 100% does change life expectancy.
That’s what they said.
Well aware.