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June 2, 2008, 11:10 am
Flag as Inappropriate DianaR
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Denying the obvious....
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I am amazed at the number of times that famous people will reach old age, over 75 in most cases, die, and then the news will say something like,"he had emphysema", or "died of complications associated with....".
Do people realize that many of these diseases are artifacts of aging?
Emphysema was found in people, who had never smoked and died after the age of 65, for many years before the push to associate ALL emphysema with smoking. It was an artifact of wear and tear on the lungs associated with advancing age.
Developing cancer with advanced age can also be attributed to replication of DNA in aging cells. After a while the body just doesn't do this as efficiently, or accurately, as when the body was younger.
What stories have you heard about people, famous or not, who were said to die of a disease, instead of old age, when death occurred after the age of 65 or 70?
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June 2, 2008, 11:49 am
Flag as Inappropriate skatss says...
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Yep, getting old is not fun. But many people do realize that it is old age that does them in eventually and part of old age is the body getting weaker and weaker. Many people live to be 100 and older so it isn't just old age that kills but the complications that arise from it.
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June 2, 2008, 3:56 pm
Flag as Inappropriate alexis3 says...
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Didnt the guy just recently who had made the movie Tootsie die from something similar? I am thinking cancer but I might be wrong.
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June 5, 2008, 3:54 pm
Flag as Inappropriate DianaR says...
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You know, I can't remember what they said he died of, but he was up there in years too, wasn't he?
I will try to remember to hunt around to see what they list for his death!
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