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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>what is the natural way to die?
Eaten by a predator, starving to death, food poisoning, trampled by a prey, infection after being harmed etc.etc.
We have extended our lifespans much longer than what is normally expected of an animal.
This means that our body progressively becomes less fit to sustain itself, but we are able to sustain it via societial, scientific and technological means.
The older we get, the more susceptible we are to localized failures in our system and the less effective we are at repairing damage.
Sooner or later something in our body fails irreversibly causing death (generally later the more care we used to it throughout our lifespan)
Most probably in a “natural” environment we would be loosing fitness to survival much earlier than when most other effects would present themselves, and cancer or heart attacks wouldn’t be much of a concern.
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