What is the main reason that kill you when you died of old age?
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If you were to die in old age that mean your death is not because of illness, correct? So what is the “main reason” that kills you? What kind of organ failure? For example, heart or lung failure? Or shortness of breath?
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If you were to die in old age that mean your death is not because of illness, correct? So what is the “main reason” that kills you? What kind of organ failure? For example, heart or lung failure? Or shortness of breath?
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May 26th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
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Leading causes of ‘death in old age’ include cancer, heart failure and infections.
May 29th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
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When people “die of old age”, they die due to the diseases of senility. Alzheimer’s disease is a major cause of death; plaques form in the brain and gradually all neural functions deteriorate, not simply memory. Other common causes of death in the elderly include: arteriosclerosis which can precipitate cerebrovascular accidents (strokes), ruptures of the abdominal aorta, and various lethal cardiac conditions such as congestive heart failure and fatal arrhythmias. Cancer is another common malady of the aged. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (emphysema) is a problem which is progressive. Diabetes is another. All of the conditions that I have mentioned are chronic and progressive, continuing to worsen until ultimately some essential organ fails catastrophically, and the victim dies…
June 1st, 2009 at 3:16 am
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what you do in ur yongr life effects ur oldr life,if u smkd u pay for it,if u drank too much u pay for it,do drgs u pay deerly for it.and you don t execise u pay muuuuch deerly for it.othoys no hart,lung,artheritise, any problems to die. only ur god wants u back to be besides him/her.!!!
June 1st, 2009 at 8:17 am
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Aubrey de Grey claims there are 7 factors that contribute to death by old age.
1)Cell loss/ atrophy — cells that stop replicating and self-destruct
2) Death-resistant cells
3) Nuclear mutations and epimutations (chromosomal damage)
4) mitochondiral DNA mutations (genetic damage in the metabolic powerhouse of the cell)
5) Protein crosslinks
6) Extracellular junk — as discovered by Alzheimer
7) Intracellular junk
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June 4th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
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In strictly medical terms, when one dies of old age, it is generally due to heart failure. The heart essentially gives up. It gets tired and stops beating.
June 6th, 2009 at 9:37 am
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When I was in 7th grade, I was shown a movie in science called “Bob’s Final Days.” Basically, one day an artery kind of broke, ruptured, leaked – whatever you want to call it – in Bob’s stomach, but his blood vessels were to old to constrict well enough to heal it, and as blood leaked into his stomach, the elderly man began to feel lightheaded, laid down, and died.
Kind of creepy for a 7th grader. It’s definitely had a great impact on how I view mortality even to this day.
June 9th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
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Grandma died because she didn’t want to go to her 100th birthday party, 6 days away. It realy bothered her that an entire town was comming out to celibrate that SHE had lived in and survived 2 wars in Netherlands. They kinda stole that day from HER by not celibrating her, but what she had to do anyway, survive.
June 11th, 2009 at 4:47 am
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the body just deteriorates. actually, there is a gland in the back of the neck that scientists believe once allowed us at one time to live for 100s of years! but unfortunately now it does nothing.
i had another really cool part of this answer, but now i cant remember it! darn it Friends re runs!
actually there was also a study that the human soul weighs 21 grams. Dr. Duncan MacDougall of Haverhill, Massachusetts put dying patients on a scale right before they died and there was a 21 gram difference from the body at the final release of breath.
June 12th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
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Basically.. the immune system grows weaker.. and weaker.. leaving us open to oxidants.. Someday science will be able to reverse aging of our cells.. and by giving us genetically “perfect” bodies.. and super immune genes.. we may live very long.. and more important.. healthy lives..
Now.. if we can just eliminate ignorance.. greed & war… ; )
June 15th, 2009 at 4:25 am
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Finally figuring out that you are supposed to be somewhere else..
June 16th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
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To die of old age means to wear away. Your body cannot sustain itself because it’s worn. That is why it is important to lead a healthy lifestyle and refrain from ingesting harmful substances like alcohol which kills thousands of brain cells at a time.
June 19th, 2009 at 8:32 am
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The heart stops and breathing ceases.