2006-11-17 07:54:34 · 14 answers · asked by Queenie 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
Hmm...good one...it seems like they tend to only say that after the person hits their 80s. Also, it's said of people who have nothing wrong with them except they're old. Like, if you had a grandma who was like 91 and still walking around and had no heart problems or cancer or anything, and then one day she just died in her sleep for no real reason other than she just stopped breathing, that would be dying of old age.
2006-11-17 08:02:56 · answer #1 · answered by fizzygurrl1980 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't matter how old you are, you just have to be dead from something that isn't an accident or a disease. There are children with a gene defect who are dying of old age by the time they are 12. Very sad.
2006-11-17 07:57:48 · answer #2 · answered by Monica M 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If the person is not old enough to have died of old age they just cause it "natural causes".
2006-11-17 07:56:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmmm .... I don't think people actually die of old age ... they die of some sort of organ failure or disease that may be common to people as they get older. And different people reach that point at different ages .... genetics play a major role. Today 60 - 70 is still considered relatively young.
2006-11-17 07:59:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My gf grandma died of old age at 102, I think that qualifies.
2006-11-17 07:59:24 · answer #5 · answered by kny390 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
THAT is a good question. I don't have the answer, and I'm very sorry for it, but I'm curious about it, too. And how does someone just die of being old? Don't they have to have some sort of disease? I sense a spinoff question in the making. Hmm.
2006-11-17 07:57:08 · answer #6 · answered by Casey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i believe old age is a term they use when a person who is older than say 80 who is perfectly healthy just dies for no reason.
2006-11-17 07:57:51 · answer #7 · answered by southpaw1416 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Id say above 80 years
2006-11-17 07:59:49 · answer #8 · answered by ♥kailababy♥ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is undefined and left up to the medical community's best guess. It's like, "What is porn vs. what is educational?"
Also, with people living longer, the idea of what old age means is changing.
2006-11-17 07:59:40 · answer #9 · answered by Jack 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
nicely-being a center elderly individual myself...{40-ish} i might say you will possibly be someplace in the variety of 80& older to be in that catagory.many folk stay nicely into their 80's& ninety's or longer at the instant.
2016-10-22 06:36:17 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋