My brilliant conclusion*

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I was thinking the other day and realized that humans do not have to die because of any law or pattern concerned with sexually reproducing organisms - eg it is theoretically possible that a single human life could be sustained indefinitely, even without the use of modern medical technology. So the real reason people die has nothing to do with the aging process or the breakdown of crucial life-sustaining processes in the body.
The reason everybody dies is because they fucking deserve it.

*at andrew's request since I am a non-blogging luddite

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 15 March 2003 00:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

Do you deserve it? I'm not saying you don't.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Saturday, 15 March 2003 00:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

Eukaryotic organisms have a limited lifespan because their DNA is gradually destroyed with age.. when vital genes are affected, the organism dies; it usually takes 120-150 years in humans. Thus no human can live beyond 150 years (approximately).

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 15 March 2003 00:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

We all do. Let's go die! Millar deserves it cos he won't get a blog to record these aweinspiring thoughts

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Saturday, 15 March 2003 00:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

There was a lot of stuff in The Elementary Particles about this. (The cell division / reproduction / decay bit Curtis is talking about.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 15 March 2003 02:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sorry, I was working up to saying something interesting stemming from that, but as it turns out I've got nothing. It was a good book, how about that. Not in the "good to read" kind of way, because reading it was sort of annoying in lots of spots, but rather in the "find yourself thinking about it with surprising frequency over the following months" kind of way.

― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 15 March 2003 02:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

but Curtis, will it ever be possible to substitute those worn out bits of dna with other bits?

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 16 March 2003 18:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

"natural causes"

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Sunday, 16 March 2003 18:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

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