• Question: why cant we live forever?

    Asked by to Del, Catherine, John, Krishna, Mo Rassul on 14 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Adelle Thrower answered on 14 Mar 2014:

      We can’t live forever as eventually our cells can not function normally – if ageing is something we can understand fully and there is research going on for this then perhaps we can develop was to hinder this. But would you want to live forever? Forever is a very long time……..

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      Krishna Mohan Surapaneni answered on 18 Mar 2014:

      Yes we can not live forever due to a process called – AGEING, the process of growing old.

      AND THIS PROCESS EFFECTS ALL MOST ALL THE ORGAN IN OUR BODY like SKIN, BONES, HEART etc finally leading to death at one point of time.

      For example, the Anatomical Effects of Aging includes,
      Bones are deceptive: From the outside, they appear hard and stagnant. But bones are bustling with activity. Their tough exterior conceals a vast network of blood vessels that transport nutrients to, and wastes away from, working bone cells. Bones are constantly being remodeled; they are in a continuous cycle of destruction and renewal until the day you die.
      The problem is, as time passes you lose more bone than you make. As a result, bones thin and become increasingly susceptible to fracture. As this process accelerates after age 50, osteoporosis becomes more common.

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