How old are you before it can be said you died of old age?
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va_freaking_nessa
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LOL Good question. since "old" is a relative term. I don't know. I think they often use that like they do "natural causes." When the person was old and if they don't know what the hell killed them, they just say "old age" or "natural causes."
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I think if you are above the average lifespan for your country/culture, you can be said to have died of "old age". Usually this just means your body can no longer meet the demands of surviving - respiration, circulation, converting food into fuel, etc.
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It depends, if you're frail at 50, you can die of old age but if ur not frail and elderly until your 90's, then that would be old age. As Painful Ginsu said, its all relative tho :) I guess you could define it as "dying of old age" if you die literally because your body is worn out and age has well and truly caught up with u!!
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When you hear your grandchildren.
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Eighty years old and above.
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I don't think that expression is much in use anymore. Now days we can usually be more specific, heart failure brought on by old age for example.
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No one dies of old age. No one dies of nothing. Everyone dies of something. Have a nice day !
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could it be 34, because that's my age and i feel so old sometimes. maybe it depends on the person and how well or how badly they've treated their body.
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Dying of "old age" is usually considered when your organs begin to "wear out" and shut down.
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What used to be classified as old age can now be split into a large number of different physiological failings e.g. your heart, lungs, brain, kidneys, liver etc. Old age itself is a precipitating cause as the organs lose their functionality but the final cause of death is always due to some organ failing for whatever reason. So really, you can't die of purely old age. To give an example, Joe Bloggs was 89 years old. He suffers a massive heart attack that kills him due to ischaemia to his tissues. Therefore, he was in old age, but what killed him was a heart attack. Of course, MIs can happen to anyone of any age, and the older one is, the higher the risk, but the final cause is heart attack, not old age. If you look at a true medical definition of life: "the quality that distinguishes a vital and functional plant or animal from a dead body", then it follows that death is the end of life due to loss of function.
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Re-read all your comments... btw, I said 95% of cancer patients that die, die of pnuemonia... not 95% of all deaths!!! ANY death is due to some type of organ failure, PERIOD.. we can also relate the failure to whatever disease caused the failure, but in the end.. ORGAN FAILURE!!
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abouve 65 i'd say. it's subjective!
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There is no one age. But the body would show signs to a doctor of geriatricism: muscle breakdown, skin damage, etc It may be sad to get old but sadder is that some people let their brains age and petrify while their bodies are still young.
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in my real young days Id say 65 in my younger days Id say 80 now I say 96-100 !
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Old age id say about 90 :)
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