How do we die?
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Usually slowly and painfully as your vital organs shut down, whatever happens I cant imagine the final few minutes as your head looses its blood and the electrical activity slowly ceases is going to be much fun!
On the plus side, you know your never going to have to pay another bill/tax payment/speeding ticket/parking ticket
Seems like an odd question, something we should know??
On the plus side, you know your never going to have to pay another bill/tax payment/speeding ticket/parking ticket
Seems like an odd question, something we should know??
As to the illness part of the question:
Organ failure - often the heart in the case of high temperatures. Some illnesses cause you to effectively drown in your own juices as it were, others cause internal hemorrhaging and/or bleeding in the brain (compression) but generally lack of oxygen to the brain is ultimately what we all die of.
Why the happy question?
Organ failure - often the heart in the case of high temperatures. Some illnesses cause you to effectively drown in your own juices as it were, others cause internal hemorrhaging and/or bleeding in the brain (compression) but generally lack of oxygen to the brain is ultimately what we all die of.
Why the happy question?
Petrolhead_Rich said:
Usually slowly and painfully as your vital organs shut down, whatever happens I cant imagine the final few minutes as your head looses its blood and the electrical activity slowly ceases is going to be much fun!
On the plus side, you know your never going to have to pay another bill/tax payment/speeding ticket/parking ticket
Seems like an odd question, something we should know??
On the plus side, you know your never going to have to pay another bill/tax payment/speeding ticket/parking ticket
Seems like an odd question, something we should know??
Just having a morbid moment!ZesPak said:
Timmy35 said:
Death is the end point of ageing. Why we age at all is an interesting one.
Cells that are not replaced anymore?ageing is not an unavoidable property of life. Instead, it is the result of a genetic program. Numerous species show very low signs of ageing ("negligible senescence"), the best known being trees like the bristlecone pine (however Dr. Hayflick states that the bristlecone pine has no cells older than 30 years), fish like the sturgeon and the rockfish, invertebrates like the quahog and sea anemone[4] and lobster.[5][6]
In humans and other animals, cellular senescence has been attributed to the shortening of telomeres with each cell cycle; when telomeres become too short, the cells die. The length of telomeres is therefore the "molecular clock," predicted by Hayflick.
Telomere length is maintained in immortal cells (e.g. germ cells and keratinocyte stem cells, but not other skin cell types) by the telomerase enzyme. In the laboratory, mortal cell lines can be immortalized by the activation of their telomerase gene, present in all cells but active in few cell types. Cancerous cells must become immortal to multiply without limit. This important step towards carcinogenesis implies, in 85% of cancers, the reactivation of their telomerase gene by mutation. Since this mutation is rare, the telomere "clock" can be seen as a protective mechanism against cancer.[7] Research has shown that the clock must be located in the nucleus of each cell and there have been reports that the longevity clock might be located in genes on either the first or fourth chromosome of the twenty-three pairs of human chromosomes.
Other genes are known to affect the ageing process, the sirtuin family of genes have been shown to have a significant effect on the lifespan of yeast and nematodes. Over-expression of the RAS2 gene increases lifespan in yeast substantially.
Ayahuasca said:
What's the 'death rattle' all about? I don't like the sound of that.
Normally the last breath from lungs filled with fluid, its more of a gargle then a rattle. Had the misfortune to witness it twice from close family members (one of whom died 20/30 years before she should have) 
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