(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

“Insufficiency” is the name of a lot of illnesses but means that there is not enough supply of something. As illnesses are defined as “something is not right in the system” so it’s a given that anything that will make the body shut down is going to be called illness ans solving it will make the body last longer.