How did Charles Darwin die?

Question

How did Charles Darwin die?

Answer 1

He did not recant, if this is what you are trying to find out.

The part where he says that he was wrong was made up by the Christians.

Answer 2

Crawled back into the *goo*?

Answer 3

I don't get this.  What difference does that make and what does it have to do with Religion and Spirituality?

Edit: Elizabeth Reid, Lady Hope (née Cotton[1]; December 9, 1842–8 March 1922) was a British evangelist who is generally believed to be the Lady Hope who claimed in 1915 that she had visited the British naturalist Charles Darwin shortly before his death in 1882. Hope claimed that Darwin had recanted his theory of evolution on his deathbed and accepted Jesus Christ as his saviour.

Charles Darwin's family denied the story, and insisted that Lady Hope "was not present during his last illness, or any illness." The Lady Hope Story is generally recognised, even by many Creationists, to be false — or at least unverifiable —and if true, probably exaggerated. The story remains a popular urban legend, even though it stands in sharp contrast to Darwin's published and known views about Christianity.

Why are so many people so gullible?

Answer 4

Of old age, and on his deathbed, he renounced evolution and accepted Jesus as his savior.

Answer 5

Prolonged illness.

He was 73 years old when he died, too.

Answer 6

I think he de-volved into an amoeba.

Answer 7

Peacefully. And he didn't recant on his death bed. That is a lie started by a lying 'christian'.

Answer 8

God was angry for darwins sacrilage, and squeezed his heart till he died.

Thats what ya get for disobeying the big guy, right?

Answer 9

At age 73, an unrepentant agnostic.

Answer 10

evolving again!  lol!

Answer 11

heart attack

Answer 12

Seamus: Stop spreading lies. Your own religion forbids it, and that story has been proven repeatedly to be a lie. Even creationist organisations admit that.

Papaalw: Lady Hope never got near Darwin. She was a well-known for making up gossip, and it's been shown that she never even actually MET him when he was on his deathbed.

Answer 13

In early 1882 he had several minor heart attacks. His condition worsened and on April 19, 1882, at 73 years of age, he died at Down House, after several hours of nausea, intense vomiting and retching, symptoms of a chronic illness that bedeviled him for the last 40 years of his life. At his bedside, and attending to his needs, were his wife Emma, his daughter Henrietta and his son Francis. A widespread rumor circulated -- facilitated by an evangelist by the name of Lady Hope who preached in Downe during the last years of Darwins life -- that on his deathbed Darwin renounced evolution and declared himself a Christian. This story, totally contradictory to the nature of the man himself, is a falsehood, denied by his daughter Henrietta and those who knew him best and who were actually at his bedside during his last weeks. Darwin's last words, spoken to his wife Emma, were in actuality, "I am not in the least afraid to die."

Answer 14

He got his head stuck in a gallon can of Van Camp's beans.

Answer 15

The same way we all die.

Answer 16

Possibly Chagas's disease.

@ Seamus: I'd say something bad, but I don't want to lower myself to your basement level thoughts.

Answer 17

Who cares? Like all other people I suppose.

Answer 18

Goddidit

Answer 19

He was ill for a long time after travelling so extensively and getting bitten by tropical insects that probably carried a variety of rare interesting things. He died of a heart attack.

That he renounced his theories is the invention of an attention-seeker who didn't like his theories, but is widely propagated by other people who don't like his theories. Sadly, said attention-seeker's name is never attached to the story, probably because it's so easy to discover the lie that way.

Answer 20

Old age

Answer 21

He wasn't the "fittest."

Answer 22

His heart stopped beating.

Answer 23

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Answer 24

I am not sure the direct answer is here, but you should find it interesting anyway.

Darwin's illness

     Some have contended that his debilitating illness may have been due to catching Chagas's disease while in S. America, but medical experts say that his symptoms do not conform to this. Croft's book is revealing in just how serious Darwin's illnesses were, yet he was very fit and walking seven miles a day whilst on a "water cure" away from home. His symptoms returned when he came home and started work again. From this, we would contend that Darwin's debilitating symptoms were entirely due to his stress of working and particularly in his propagation of evolution which he knew was destructive of Christianity and good moral influence; a view with which Moore and Croft agree. If this is so, then we are dealing with a man with a tortured conscience whatever may be said. Like many before him, it would be only natural that he should seek relief from his sense of guilt from One who had come to earth for that very purpose.

     Even Moore admits that Darwin's thoughts may have turned to religion, for his brother Erasmus had recently died, and "his own health was giving 'much cause for uneasiness'" (M:56). During these last months he "thought much on the eternal questions - chance and design, providence and pain" and looked forward to death (M:27). Darwin was not the first to review his life as death neared -- and he was certainly not the last.

     In June 1881, just before the Lady Hope visit, he was taken ill while on holiday, and wrote that he was looking forward "to Downe graveyard as the sweetest place on earth" (Croft: 108). When Darwin suffered a heart attack on the day of his death, he whispered "I am not in the least afraid to die" (M:29). Did he now have faith or was he simply not fearful of his future?

     We would make one small observation. Lady Hope records that "his fingers twitched nervously" while she was speaking to him. Now this was a known characteristic of Darwin "when he was lost in thought" (M:55). What could be more natural that now she knew Darwin more familiarly after several visits, she should gently broach the subject of evolution and its detrimental effect upon Christianity? Darwin's nervous reaction was noted by her - and the whole account begins to "hang together".  

Answer 25

Brain Aneurysm- so angry from not being able to find the missing link to prove his theory lol.  

Answer 26

painfully