How old are you before it can be said you died of old age?
2006-10-14 10:52:29 · 13 answers · asked by Jane2006 2 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
Good question. Over 80 maybe 90 and up. Most people die of something else. People who die in their sleep when they are over 80 are considered to have died of old age. But generally the cause of death is heart attack.
2006-10-14 10:56:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
137... because I am 47 and my dad is dying at the age of 75... if I were 97 and he were 125, I would feel the same. When you love someone, you can never find the justice in their death no matter what age you are. I look at it as... 'you don't die from old age, you die from something going bad' like your heart went bad. A heart can go bad if you are 2 years old or if you are 102 years old. Right now, I keep age out of things.
2006-10-14 10:58:04 · answer #2 · answered by tootsie38 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question. Actually I heard about a little girl of six who suffered from rapid ageing. She displayed all the symptoms of old age and was catagorised as having died of old age!
Therefore I don't think you can put an age on it - strange as it might seem
2006-10-14 10:56:08 · answer #3 · answered by nettyone2003 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i depends on how old your body is not the numbers people call age here is an example when my grandpa was in the hospital for leukemia they said he had a body of a 94 year old but he died at 63. that is what it comes down to it all depends on the person and their body!!!
2006-10-14 10:55:55 · answer #4 · answered by Big Mama 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
40
2006-10-14 10:54:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would say these days 80 plus, but you so rarely hear that phrase these days- people always seem to have to pinpoint exactly what it was medically speaking that caused someone to die, even if it is something as closely related to 'died of old age' as respiratory arrest or heart failure- i.e. their heart stopped or they stopped breathing!
2006-10-14 10:57:46 · answer #6 · answered by dollydealer1 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is another way of saying died of natural causes. It's not a number it is the cause of death.
2006-10-14 11:08:05 · answer #7 · answered by Gypsy Girl 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you of no apparent disease or accident. That's why people can die at 40 of old age.
2006-10-14 18:02:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
over 60! thats retierment age and when you become a pentioner... but i feel older like 80 plus!
2006-10-14 11:51:39 · answer #9 · answered by jessica_mornington 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't die of old age, you die of "natural causes", usually something associated with old people.
2006-10-14 10:54:44 · answer #10 · answered by Joker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋