How do people pass away “peacefully in their sleep?”

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Do they just kind of stop working or something? It seems like if someone wasn’t doing well their pass away from a heart attack or something whole they were sleeping, but then again that wouldn’t be peaceful. Maybe I’m just getting too caught up on the words.

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The DNA that makes you has a definitive termination date set when it will stop replicating. So if you’re lucky, you’ll just “stop working” in your sleep.

Look up telomeres. You’re born with them and they get shorter every time your DNA replicates. When they run out, you stop, unless something else gets you first.

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