Too long, didnt research:
Alexander the Great is believed by some to have died from death.
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He is believed to have had Guillain-Barré Syndrome which gradually paralyzed him leading to him being mistaken as dead. The 6 days where his body didnt decay were attributed to his godhood by his compatriots but is interpreted as a sign of the paralysis by some modern researchers. He is likely to have been embalmed while still alive and able to feel but unable to move, scream, or look(sorry for the meme inaccuracy) at the people killing him.
by LordShorkDad
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Orr maybe to show his divine nature they wrote how he body did’t decomposed after six days and he’s not a normal human…
I really much doubt this stuff. I’m pretty certain that people made up this “not decaying” to push his divinity thingy. It’s a prevalent trope in classical culture.
The reverse trope would be Vespasian’s joke “dear me, I think I’m becoming a god!” while he’s shitting everywhere because of dysentery.
Back to Alexander. Exotic causes of deaths are all cool and exciting and way more entertaining than banal stuff. I get it. Like Cyrus’ death, Herodotus himself admitted that he prefered the story of Tomyris chopping his head off and dunking his head in a bag full of blood than the “he died in his bed, surrounded by his loved ones”. Caesar’s death is pure cinema, Napoleon’s is melancholic AF. Alexander? Like Attila or OgedeĂ¯ Khan, he drank like a fish and he died of alcohol poisoning due to liver failure. That’s all there is to it.
Genuinely the worst way to die imo. I really home it’s not true
can someone be still alive after 6 days not drinking?
Died from death is hilarious commentary
Wouldnt he still have a pulse?
Holy shit
“Egotistical but genius commanders dieing extremely embarrassing deaths/final fate ” is my favoirte hobby
Another fellow who identify’s as above is Napoleon
Sleep paralysis world champion
Wouldn’t he still breath?
I can’t even begin to imagine the horror and pain
I think they knew about breathing and pulse
This is unlikely. Gullain-Barré is an ascending paralytic syndrome, if he was that paralyzed he would have died from respiratory failure and hypoxia far before the 6 days they waited to embalm him.
Even assuming the story is true, after 6 days with no food or water, wouldn’t he have been dead anyway