Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/02/24/play-17th-century-london-death.html
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Cannot access comments from the main article @beschizza . A bug, methinks?
In the week of July 11th, 1665 you died from Suddenly
I think the person reporting my death died from Suddenly too.
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I can only hope that I die from getting “Overlaid”
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In the week of May 23rd, 1665 you died from Plague
Jackpot!
Give it another decade or two of inaction on global warming and this will all be current again.
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Notice the lack of deaths from Vaccine Injury!! The world was far better when you could die from any number of these natural diseases.
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April 25, 1665… I died of “stopping of the stomach”?
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Ye hathThou hast died of dysentery
(or “diedst thou”)
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In the week of May 23rd, 1665 I died from Spotted Feaver.
That’s misspelled somehow…
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Not for the time, maybe?
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Seems like the kind of game you might create yourself, @beschizza! 
I died of “rising of the lights”, which apparently means some lungs-related ailment, which sounds… topical.
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Weird. It randomly picked my real birthday (obvs not the year) on the first try and I immediately thought, what does this thing know about me? Then I came to my senses and was only marginally paranoid for about 15 seconds. But I died of “collick”.
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In the week of November 14th, 1665 you died from Kingsevil (scrofula)
Sure it’s tuberculosis, but it sounds like I died fighting against the monarchy, so I’ll go with that.
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I got “stopping of the stomach”, too, and I’m too scared to find out what that means.
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I can think of several times where I’d be dead right now if it weren’t for modern antibiotics. If the tooth abscess I had as a teenager didn’t kill me, the cat bite I got a couple years ago where my hand started swelling like a balloon the next day would have done it.
I recently read that the life expectancy for women in 16th century England was only 35 years due to complications from childbirth.
Just imagine what barbarians the 23rd century will think we are.
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Yeah… maybe some sort of stomach/intestinal blockage? Or maybe stomach cancer?
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A true anti-v*xxer would point out that there don’t seem to be any cases of autism on that list. 
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“Consumption” is TB. “Scrofula” is a lymphadenitis, which is often associated with TB, but isn’t TB.
So many fascinating ways to die back then.
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