I mean if u don’t die from a heart attack or something. If you die from aging how do you die? Do you just stop breathing?
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there is no “dying of old age”
you die because your organ stopped working properly. as for what stopped working? there are a lot
your heart might suddenly just jiggle on its place, you suddenly get a huge blood clot in your brain during your sleep, your brain aneurysm pop because of the thinning of blood vessel due to age, etc etc
aging itself is the proof of cellular damage. so basically when you die of old age, it’s simply a lot of your cells stopped working properly, which can lead to a chain reaction of organ failure
Ultimately you die when your heart stops unless you get life support in time. It doesn’t just randomly decide “that’s it, I quit”, most of the time if an autopsy is done, it’s a heart attack. People can get one even with no specific complaints before they get to bed and could’ve woke up and noticed the pain before the heart stopped. People also can get a clot that stops their brain from getting oxygen. Some type of cancer can be ignored, commonly lung cancer, where people die thinking their coughing is just the usual daily pain they’re used to.
When your cells get old, they lose the ability to heal and reproduce themselves. After a while, you have too few good cells to function.
This eventually causes organ failure.
When a person dies naturally in their sleep, it is often referred to as dying of natural causes or passing away peacefully. Generally, if someone dies peacefully in their sleep, it implies that death occurred without any external factors or trauma.
The body undergoes a natural process of shutting down. The heart ceases to beat, and breathing stops. This is a gradual process and is typically not accompanied by any signs of struggle or distress.
When I saw my grandmother in her final years, she was going out like a candle. A candle at it’s end, it’s very small and then it flickers a bit a bit until at some undefined point, it’s out.
Parts of her just stopped worked, she became almost blind and deaf, in the final year she could barely walk anymore. She talked in single word sentences. Her brain was still there but it was pulling energy from all over like one of those runaway AIs from a 90s saturday cartoon. The only thing that didn’t stop was her love for her family. She almost died. She hadn’t eaten in days and barely left the bed. But when we all came to say our goodbyes, for some reason she found some energy to continue living for another few months. She started eating again and we could have one last party together.
One day she just didn’t wake up. No heart attack, no thrombose, no weird fall, lung infection or anything. There was no autopsy because it didn’t matter. She was just done, all her energy was spent. To me, that sounds like old age.
Common death from. Natural causes are usually as result of an organ failing and affect other system until the brain gets affected.
Stroke, aspiration pneumonia, pneumonia, congestive heart failure are common natural causes. Stroke is part of brain died and as a result of brain bleed or blockage in blood vessel supplying oxygenation. Aspiration pneumonia is often result of swallowing issues where stuff supposed to goto stomach ends up in the lungs causing infections. Congestive heart failure is when the hear is unable to effectively act as a pump to circulate the blood.
My grandad had congestive heart failure, which as I understand it means his heart just became less and less efficient at pumping blood over quite a long period of time. That can lead to all sorts of possible fatal complications but they all come down to your heart being gradually tired out. When I hear “died of old age”, that’s immediately what my mind goes to.
Well naturally a death could be cancer, heart attack, stroke, choking to death, multi organ system failure, infection, constipation, bladder obstruction leading to your bladder bursting, bleeding to death internally because your body decided that clotting is lame, really just about anything.
If I’m old and get dementia to where I forget how to eat then please let me choke to death eating a carne asada burrito.
The carne asada burrito may not be natural, but something’s humans just do better.
I’d recommend this TED talk on exactly this topic: [https://www.ted.com/talks/kathryn_mannix_what_happens_as_we_die?language=en](https://www.ted.com/talks/kathryn_mannix_what_happens_as_we_die?language=en)
It’s surely most natural to leave this world the same way we enter it….naked, screaming and covered in blood!
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