Would You Have Croaked??

I heard from one of my French friends at work about the Marie Antoinette post. He said back in them days the average life expectancy in France was 30. So the fact they got married at 15 put them smack in middle age. 30. That would make me....well....above average.

I suppose anything out of the ordinary killed you back then. A bad drink of water, a broke toe that gets infected, appendicitis, a beheading, etc...

We forget that modern medicine keeps us going long after normal things would've had us planted in the bone garden. For me, it could've been appendicitis, a broke arm, pnuemonia, and probably a few flu's. Would you have still been around in the 1700's???