What’s your most anticipated banger?
Weird that cancer and wolf are grouped together
…but I mean that’s the band name “Cancer, and Wolf”
Seriously though, going over a reddit threat this was on, looks like “Wolf” referred to a fast-growing tumor that “ate you like a wolf” or somesuch.
https://old.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/f3c2hi/cause_of_deaths_in_london_in_1632/hkh904m/
I choose to interpret it literally
It’s definitely cooler that way, but also maybe in that regard “Cancer” means they were clawed to death by a giant crab?
Cancer (and wolf)
“Be careful, my relative tried chemo for the first time and died 3 days later to a wolf attack.”
The wolves can smell the chemo, it’s like marinade for them.
My votes go for:
- Prest to Death
- Fistula
- Livergrown
- Made Away With Themselves
- Murthered
I’m partial to Kings Evil myself
Rising of the Lights is cool
Bunch of anti-monarchists snuck into the records office 😄
Vomiting worms
“Suddenly” interests me the most. Not a condition or even a means, just a manner.
Like a catch-all for things they didn’t understand; heart attack, brain haemorrhage, things where someone’s fine one minute, and dead the next.
Afaik, sudden cardiac arrest is a cause of death still used today. In spanish we call it just sudden death.
my uncle died of “Sudden Adult Death Syndrome” per the coroner’s report
That’s sad
yeah. poor guy. He was a brickie, played the French horn in the Sally Army Band, four kids, wife. Into lifting, whisky, big mustache. Real working class hero type.
Anyway, thanks for your regards.
Seems more like band names to me… and according to the Encyclopedia Metallum, these are already used:
Stillborn, Aged, Apoplex, Bleeding, Flux, Sores, Burnt, Scalded, Burst, Rupture, Cancer, Wolf, Canker, Cold, Cough, Strangury, Consumption, Convulsion, Starved, Drowned, Executed, Falling Sickness, Fever, Fistula, Gangrene, Gout, Grief, King’s Evil, Lethargie, Spleen, Sciatica, Teeth, Thrush, and Worms
they still use colic to describe severe idiopathic abdominal pain
“Cancer, and Wolf.”
What?…. What?
Cancer, and Wolf, refers to the old common term for cancer: wolf. It was thought to be a parasite that ate up the afflicted, like a wolf.
“Have you been bitten by or interacted with any wolves recently, Mr. Jacobs?”
“No, I’ve never actually even seen a wolf in real life.”
“I see, then we seem to have misdiagnosed you, it turns out that you have lymphoma and you’re a liar. Now take this cocaine and get out of my office.”
Sounds weird from today’s perspective, but actually refers to two notorious murderers that terrorized people at land and sea. You could protect yourself from either the cancer’s claw or the wolf’s tooth, but not both.
This is specifically a Dethklok track list. Some of these are kinda brutal.
Producer: Okay, but… “Teeth?”
Band: ::complaints and groans of disbelief::
Nathan: They’re like… bone knives. In your face. And kids lose their first set with blood and agony, and then you get even more. It’s so f—ing brutal. So we made a song about it.
Toki: Plus it’s important to teach the kids about brushing.
Swissgar: Yous don’t want to be losings your bone face knives.
I am going to die of Planet after I forget my parachute while sky diving.
How’d crackhappy die? Oh you know, PLANET.
That planet appeared really suddenly!
The fact that infants dying is the highest by far just shows how cruel nature is without modern medicine and birthing practices
in college, i did a fair amount of number crunching on mortality statistics and the demographic transition. here’s some numbers i remember from the 1700s:
life expectancy: 40
life expectancy at age 20: 72
modern medicine has not added much to our longevity, we’ve just gotten rid of childhood mortality.I read somewhere that it’s actually an efficient method of nature … babies that won’t make it anyways die early so you waste fewer resources on them. it’s called fail fast
Tuberculosis (consumption) was another constant killer, coming in at second.
Fistula… I’m scared to search that…
You don’t have to. Here, I’ll tell you: It’s when your asshole sprouts another asshole.
It can also be when toothdecay spreads sideways through your mouth. That’d probably kill you a lot more readily back then
“King’s evil”
Political bars.
It was a lymph node disorder, commonly caused by tuberculosis.
Death by musical instrument needed its own category.
Also killed by several accidents - a series of unfortunate events.
Also those darn evil kings!
And lights are dangerous when rising.
Considering it was London, I’m surprised death by teeth wasn’t more prevalent.
I’d like Kil’d by Several Accidents and … hmm … Planet, thanks.
