• Question: what causes natural death?

    Asked by pandagirl to Fiona, Jane, Joanna, Michelle, William on 18 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Michelle Murphy

      Michelle Murphy answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      the heart slowing down and getting tired causing the brain to not get enough oxygen

    • Photo: Joanna Brooks

      Joanna Brooks answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      Hello again! Well natural death is most commonly explained by the failure of multiple organs – so the heart stops beating, the liver or kidneys stop working. It can also mean that organs stop working because of disease for example. In contrast, unnatural death would mean death by suicide or an accident.

    • Photo: Fiona Randall

      Fiona Randall answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      Just being old, your organs stop working.

    • Photo: William Davies

      William Davies answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      Most cells in our bodies can undergo a limited number of divisions. Once they’ve undergone all their divisions, they start to become damaged (e.g. by the accumulation of chemicals such as free radicals) and work less efficiently than they used to. Eventually, the requirements of the body can’t be supplied by the cells which are falling apart, and the person dies of ‘old age’. Hopefully in the future we’ll be able to limit (or even prevent) damage to the cells so that we can live much longer, healthier lives

    • Photo: Jane Henry

      Jane Henry answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      Our cells can only divide and renew themselves perfectly a certain number of times, as we get older there are more imperfections in the replications which degrade various systems.

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