What were deaths like in medieval times?

Answer 1

Some might have been tortured, some died of disease, others of old age, starvation, and dehydration or lack of clean water.

Perhaps the most horrible way to die was of the Black Death, where you parts of you swelled up and you were miserable. People died by the hundreds. It was caused by rats, the fleas on rats got onto humans and basically gave them death. It killed you miserably and quite quickly.

Answer 2

There are many reasons why they died. One reason was the plague and millions died with that. Another reason is that there was no science and the science that existed was mainly superstition .Diets were very bad so death from diseases associated with that. Women died in childbirth in high numbers. People died from accidents, murder, and abuse. Wars were a big cause of death. So little medical knowledge was known more people died of wounds than of the war. Infections set in and depending on where the wound was you could be dead in hours. The average life span was to about 40 years old and a person 50 was considered very old.

Answer 3

In the middle ages, as today, people died from:

• old age
• disease
• murder
• starvation
• war
• suicide

The difference between today and the middle ages is not the causes of death, but the fraction of deaths that have each of these causes. Only drug abuse is significant in modern times and not in the middle ages.

Answer 4

A lot died of common diseases caused by bad hygine or contaminated water supplies. Others (being millions) died during the years of the Bubonic Plague and the Crusades. Some died through less then legal means ( of which i mean poisonings, political assassinations, suicides, and inqusition by the catholic church.

Answer 5

mainly by the black death.

but people also died because of the awful living conditions