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Originally Posted by Sekou  There is ample research that is starting to come to light about aging. It is more or less the accumulation of damage overtime that weakens the body and prevents it from functioning optimally. The body becomes more and more prone to a fatal malfunction. This makes sense, as it should -- I am always confused that so many people can accept death as "given," that it happens without preventable or treatable reasons. Deaths are prevented all of the time -- there is no sense in thinking that it WILL happen at some unknown time in the future. "Natural" death is a myth -- all deaths have a reasonable, explainable (scientific) causes. |
I'm far from an expert in biology, but I remember reading that the reason we ultimately die is that there's a chromosome in our cells' DNA that gets shorter every time the cells split. Eventually when this chromosome is worn out cells can't split any further. Since they have a limited lifetime, eventually the body ends up dying as well. Of course death usually can be pinpointed to the failure of a specific organ or group of organs, but that doesn't mean that these organs didn't die from old age themselves.
