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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You don’t die from aging.
Something is always the root cause. Heart failure is one of the most common.
Your body is a complicated system of a lot of moving parts. As you get older, all of those parts get wear and tear. They keep up the best they can, but eventually something falls behind. Maybe your digestive system stops you from eating, maybe your kidneys or liver fall behind on processing waste, maybe your heart slows down and cant’ keep up with pumping blood. Then other systems start to fail because of that one, and then eventually the whole system shuts down because something fully breaks.
The reason they say “died of old age” or “natural causes” even though technically it was a heart attack or something, is that it was pretty expected at that point that *something* was going to fail. It’s like a bridge slowly falling apart. Piece by piece it crumbles until it collapses. But you don’t say “well, that last little stone was what caused the bridge to collapse,” because it was that one, plus the 5,000 others that had already fallen that finally contributed to the collapse. If you managed to keep that little stone in place, a different one would fall at that point, or two others, basically the bridge was teetering towards collapse, so the specific brick that fell at the last moment isn’t really important.
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