Would you be alive today if...

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there was absolutely no medical technology. That would mean that no medication would be available and any surgery could not be done. Any medical treatment (like chemo and radiation) would also not be available.

I would probably be dead by now. When I was really little (I think when I was a baby) I had to take this pill because I had some "heart enlargement" disorder. I don't need to take it anymore. Thats all the details I know about it since my mom just told me about it one day. Also, I had pneumonia one summer where I had to take antibiotics.

My brother would probably also not be alive since he had to undergo a hernia surgery when he was like 2 years old or something.

My mom might be dead by now since she had to undergo radiotherapy a few years ago because of a breast tumor although it was benign. She is all recovered by now (at least the tumour hasn't made a comeback).

My dad had his thyroid removed because of infection and he may be dead by now if he didn't have the surgery.

My uncle needed kidney dialysis and had a transplant but may need a dialysis again soon since the kidney was from a dead guy that was over 70.

Ok, now I know why world life expectancy has soared throughout the 20th century.

My teeth would be giving me problems, and my vision wouldn't be so great, but apart from that, I think I would be fine.

My parents, on the other hand, might have both died before having the chance to meet.

I's still be alive.

I'd still be alive, but I'd have bad vision, and a rotting mouth.

Probably I'd be alive. I was big, strong and healthy child. I hadn't any serious disease and I don't want to have.

Remember that people (usually children) in the past died because of flu, parasites, avitaminosis or diarrhoea. Some died during or before the birth. People used to have many children and it was normal thing that some of them died in young age.

I was born prematurely and unable to breathe on my own, so I'd be dead without medical intervention.

I don't think I would.

No chance.

Nope, I was born with that thing where your skin's green and you have to get lots of ultraviolet. I forget what it's called.

Looks like the people who probably wouldn't survive answered slower so far

I'm not sure whether or not I would have died without medical intervention, but I certainly would still have buck teeth and probably be confined to an institution for severe OCD, anxiety disorder and psychosis.

One of my older sisters would have definitely died if she hadn't had medical intervention. She had holes in her lungs once when she was a child.

I'd be alive.

I'd be dead. Wait- is penicillin available? Because if it were I'd totally be dead because I'm allergic If not, I would still be dead from a lynching or a witch burning anyway.

Don't know, I was a real late birth, almost totally dry of amniotic fluid. I'm not totally sure what happens to dry babies or if ancient methods may have sufficed to keep me wet with whatever I needed to be dampened with.

That aside, probably yes. I have extremely mild asthma that seems to just sort of come and go, I had a hole in my long once but it was small and healed on its own.

I'm good at blending in and always have been, so stoning and other forms of execution probably would be a non-factor.

I think I can safely assume I would have been dead ALMOST FOR SURE long before my 5th birthday- I was always a very sickly child so a flu, pneumonia or something like that would have soon finished me off. On the other hand, if I was born in a less civilized world, my mother wouldn't be so overprotective towards me which was the major reason why I was always so sickly and catching all illnesses possible - she was doing her best to keep me in the safe hiding place of a metaphorical glass jar, separating me from all germs (as a small kid I used to live in rural areas, in a small village so I had access to fresh air, dirt and stuff but she still managed to keep trying to separate me from germs threatening me). Well, she got rewarded according to her deserts - all she got was a daughter who was so susceptible to infections of her lower and upper airways that when at age 12 I got ill only 5 times during one year, she was very glad that my health got so much better.

Alive and ok.