Death of Jack the Ripper Suspects

[clark2710]

If Jack the Ripper WERE one of the suspects is it safe to assume that his death wasn't pleasant? Everytime i come across a Ripper suspect, died by hanging this, died of gangrene that, poisoned here, killed there...did they all die an unpleasant death?

[Ms Diddles]

Hi Clark,
I suspect that in this era, before advances in palliative care, most people likely died an unpleasant death.

[erobitha]

Very few would have lived to old age and passed away peacefully in their sleep. This was also the era pre anti-biotics so you can be well assured most who caught viral or bacterial diseases did not die comfortably, let alone those killed through punishment or another’s hand.