(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.

Question

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

My grandmother’s body just kept getting weaker. She lived to be 100. She never was sick a day in her life that I knew her. Never had a surgery. She was a tiny fighter- bet 100 pounds soaking wet. Kept her wits about her till the end.