eli5: what is the natural way to die?

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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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Anonymous 0 Comments

Everyone, everywhere since the dawn of time has died of the same thing.

Lack of oxygen to the brain.

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Eventually some part of your body fails.  Heart is common, but there are other ways.  Chances of cancer increase as you get older so that’s another.  Maybe it’s a massive stroke due to a weakened blood vessel.  Or your kidneys give out.  Unfortunately our bodies wear out eventually.  

Anonymous 0 Comments

Heart Attack is one of many natural way to die and can be the result of old age. Simply a build up of stuff in your blood over a long period of time can cause your blood to be clotted and blocking access to the heart. Heart muscle also getting weaker and not pumping blood as strong can cause that.

Anonymous 0 Comments

As you get older each and every part of your body starts to break down little by little and loose function. Bones loose density.

Your joints ache, your muscles get weaker, your skin gets thinner and less elastic.
But also, your arteries harden, your kidneys become less effective, your bowels develop cancerous cells. Plaque builds in your brain.

All these weakening systems stack on top of each other. 80% heart function puts stress on the lungs, 70% kidney function puts strain on the heart. And so on and so on.

And none of this breakdown can be quickly or easily repaired.
And one day when nothing in your body is working at better than 50% you have a sudden critical event that wouldn’t kill a healthy person, but you simply don’t recover and everything fails and you just kinda die.

No one thing but everything.
Organ failure. Any one of them could be called natural causes.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Based on most of human history, the “natural” way to die is from being killed by other humans, killed by mosquito-born illnesses, accidents, infections, exposure-related illnesses, etc. The way we die today is unprecedented in most of human history and is largely a result of our technological advances due to American global hegemony, liberal democracy and capitalism.

Anonymous 0 Comments

If we assume that the natural world begins at the Big Bang then I think gravity would be the most natural way to die.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Think of your body like a machine. And all of your organs are gears in the machine. All of the gears need to turn in order for the machine to operate. If one of those gears fails and isn’t fixed, then the machine will start breaking down and quickly die.