Cause of death

[LizzieW]

Ayashi - I've got quite a few death certs which just state "Old Age".  Seems a good enough explanation to me.

[Ayashi]

Yeah, so have I, it was just the "probably" bit that got me lol

[dobfarm]

I've a few death certs with 'natural decay' on! for reason of death! but one was uncertified  ?

[Billyblue]

My elderly pocket medical dictionary from nursing days says:
Endarteritis is inflammation of the inner coat of an artery
Obliteration (for obliterans) complete closure of a lumen
Lumen is the space inside of a tube.
So his artery (whichever one) was clogged up inside, a frequent problem as we age.  These days the docs put you on low dose aspirin to thin the blood but in 1927 they wouldn't have known about this (don't think they even knew about aspirin!)
 Bulbar paralysis is symmetrical paralysis of the muscles of the tongue, throat, face, and sometimes of the larynx, due to degenerative changes in the motor nuclei of the medulla oblongata. But Pseudo bulbar paralysis has its own definition - symmetrical disease of both cerebral hemispheres....causes voluntary paralysis of swallowing, articulation, and chewing movements.
Sounds like he had a stroke
Dawn M.

[Ayashi]

Thanks, someone else said "stroke" which is a bit worrying since this would be the fourth stroke I've got in the first few generations from me.

Possibly the endarteritis affected the veins in his brain?

I know this bloke was the hardest to find in the family yet, gave me a lot of trouble, but I wouldn't have wished this on him even if I did threaten a few times to create a time machine in order to go back and punch him for being tricky 

[dobfarm]

If he had a Gravestone -I would think it said!


 R. I. P. !             at the bottom.

[Billyblue]

Well Ayashi, strokes / heart disease / diabetes do tend to 'run' in families.

Both my parents died as result of what we call a 'stroke' - the general medical shorthand is CVA for cerebral vascular accident (not to be confused with MVA for motor vehicle accident  )
This covers different kinds of vascular problems which affect the brain, and can be caused by either a blockage or a haemorrhage.
When my Dad started having mini-strokes or TIAs, my doc put me on low dose aspirin with the comment "With your family history I'm not taking chances"
Dawn M

[Ayashi]

My g-g-grandparents both had different types of stroke and their son, my g-grandfather had a different kind of stroke again on mum's dad's side. Mum is still alive and her father died in a car crash (MVA, ha ha) so we wouldn't have known what he would have died of otherwise. I've also got four cancers in the first few generations too, and a few bits of heart disease, although it might be hard to say how much could be attributed to things like smoking, which I've never done.

At least if it does run in families, these days we have better ways of coping with them.

[Billyblue]

I might add...
My mum was nearly 88 when she died, and my dad was 101!
People say I should live till I'm 90.  I've only got 20 years left 
Dawn M