(or 2!) Dying of old age, can you actually DIE because of the body being worn out, or is it always a disease or such? I read that if we cure every disease, we would live hundreds of years.

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Title! I don’t get it. Isn’t my finger getting worn from just being used for too long? Or will it eventually get worse because of something else?

In: Biology

Answer 1

I once put “old age” as the cause of death for a 94 year old patient. I was told I can’t do that. You’d be surprised how often “sepsis” is used as the medical version of “miscellaneous” because we can’t come up with anything more specific in the moment.