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- Why Alexander the Great May Have Been Declared Dead Prematurely (It's Pretty Gruesome)
Live Science | Owen Jarus | published February 04, 2019
Posted on 01/29/2019 11:02:15 AM PST by Red Badger
Thanks. Thought the word sounded vaguely familiar.
Yep. Looks like that’s close. Went and dug a little and it can be transferred as a Herpes virus to the gastrointestinal tract.
Thanks for the PING...one of the weirdest and most interesting ones ever!
Of course, it's with the proviso that, his body isn't avaiable for study. :^) Perfect hypothesis, IOW.
True, but nonetheless, this is an interesting take on it all.
If only he had lived in our time...even with his severe paralysis he could have served a few decades as a US representative or Supreme Court justice. Just sayin!
It is.
if he was breathing so shallowly that his chest movement was imperceptible, how was he able to take in enough oxygen to stay alive?
No, but the Democrats might find this useful with Ruth Bader Ginsberg.
Dem: She’s alive!
Rep: She hasn’t moved or spoken in days.
Dem: She’s alive! Maybe she is paralyzed!
Rep: No pulse.
Dem: That’s because your fingers are insensitive, just like your President. She’s alive.
Rep: Her chest isn’t even moving!
Dem: She’s alive! She’s taking tiny breaths.
Rep: Look, here is a mirror... I’ll hold it near her mouth and nose and you’ll see. See? No sign of fogging on this mirror. Dead as a doornail.
Dem: She’s probably got that disease Alexander the Great had.
Rep: What?
Dem: He had this disease that paralyzed him and even though he had his wits after partying all night and swilling wine like Nancy Pelosi he got sick the next day and soon he couldn’t move and his breathing couldn’t be even be detected so he got buried alive...
Rep: That disease is rare and anyway you have no evidence she’s got it or that she’s alive. You are just making up bullschitt to avoid admitting it’s time to nominate a judge for her seat...
Dem: Racist!
First thought—Lazarus is probably the most famous case of false death we have heard about.
When my son was in Iraq in the summer, he said they drank water by the gallons, so the quantity of wine, possibly watered, drunk by Alexander in June is not surprising. In fact if it was too well watered it may have been contaminated by disease. Beer and cider, often hard, were two major beverages in the American colonies. The addition of resin to wine may have had health giving properties. Pycnogenol from the French maritime pine, Taxol from Pacific coast yew trees, and Arbor Vitae an important herb in Colonial America are all from pine type trees. Cabot was amazed at how quickly is crew recovered from scurvy once the Canadian Indians introduced him to use of pine, spruce buds I think it was. I don’t think it was the vitamin C of limes, but rather a form of pycnogenol that healed them much quicker than conventional Vitamin C might have done.
Regarding “finest warmonger”, the author is of British heritage not US. The Brits have fishmongers, ironmongers, etc. Warmonger probably does not have the ugly connotation there that it does in the USA, but more the sense of a craftsman or professional.
Death by dehydration takes a while. My late husband suffering from advanced Alzheimers had begged to be allowed to die in our home. Two VA doctors had met with us in March, examined his advanced directives, and confirmed his wishes with him. In June he collapsed, spent a brief time in hospital and rehab nursing facility, managed to climb the stairs to our bed and never got up again. On Thursday in June he did not want to eat the soup I tried to feed him. My son was there and we called the VA doctors. They told us feed him if he asks for it, give him water if he wants it. By that evening he was in a coma and died the following Tuesday. Five to six days without water. He was 75.
How can they possible really know?
The addition of resin to wine may have had health giving properties.
Retsina is the national beverage of Greece, and residue of it has been found in Mycenaean-era pottery. Interesting idea that he may have picked up something from the water.
I’m sorry you had to go through that experience with your husband. The average person has not discussed it at all, (passing away at home) and those who do may not realize how hard it can be on the entire family. I am making the presumption that it could become very difficult. I’ve not lived through it myself. Not so far. There was likely a part of his mind who felt better that you were near him, but was unable to express it to you.
My mother had also wanted an at home death, so I brought her to my home for her last six months. A big difference was that she knew she was dying and it caused her anguish. My husband did not, and for about 3 years he did not know I was his wife, just the nice lady who took care of him. My husband’s ancestry was Scottish and he hated the idea of spending money on nursing homes ($70,000 a year) or expensive funerals (minimum $8,000) so I did what I had to. I had undergone quite a bit of psychotherapy which made it easier for me to handle both death watches. My husbands war caused PTSD eventually gave me PTSD which I eventually was able to exorcise.
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