Do people ever die simply from age, or is there always a reason?!


Question: Do people ever die simply from age, or is there always a reason?
I've never read a death certificate, but by word of mouth, even the oldest of people I've seen die seem to have a medical reason for it. People will say "she died in her sleep" and "she died of old age", but there usually seems to be a medical reason, like "heart failure", "heart attack", "stroke"...something like that.

My great grandmother lived to be 101, and they said she technically died of a heart attack, but geez...regardless of WHAT she died of, she certainly lived a full life! Regardless of the "medical reason", I can understand how anyone who lives to be 80 only died because of "age", muchless someone who lives to 101 (their bodies were aged, slowed down, which either encouraged or brought on whatever "medical reason" the doctors give)

Anyway, is "age" ever the actual answer? Or is there always going to be some medical reason posted, like "heart failure", even when the only thing that happened was their body slowed down enough to where the heart simply stopped?

Answers:

"age" isn't a medical reason, but age related medical complications are. For instance, dying from heart failure is really common because the heart sometimes just gets too old and poops out. So it's technically heart failure, but it's from the age of the heart that it failed.



Basically, there is always a reason. Age really has nothing to do with it. Its how well the body was treated through its years of existence.



people die for different reasons diseases, car accident, suicide etc



they can... as tor body gets older it gets weaker and eventually shuts down



Age can definetely be a cause of death, sadly.




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