Why do you think people die?

I don't want to hear a bunch of "Metabolism dumbass", or any answers concerning Tithonus. Philosophical or thoughtful answers are appreciated. Criticism over a poll is not.

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  • Do not question your God.

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  • Scientifically, because cells are less able to replicate themselves accurately as one ages.

    Philosophically, to allow us to better appreciate our existence and all that comes with it.

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  • Murder
    Sickness
    Age
    Suicide
    Genocide
    Homicide
    Angry African grey parrots

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  • Because life gets so fucking boring people would kill themselves just to get it over with

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  • Nobody ever really dies, they just smell that way.

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  • The science is actually pretty complicated, bud.

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  • To move on to whatever is after life.

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  • cause they fucken old? or they fuckn unlucky? or they fucken...i don"t know!!

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  • Because the Earth would fill up and be destroyed. The Earth aka Nature kills us in self defense.

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  • man cmon you never seen the lion king?

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  • ...because we accept it as an inevitability.

    AHHHHHHHH.

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  • i think that after a while, life is too painful to continue and it must simply end

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  • I think if we had the ability to live forever, the majority of long lived people would kill themselves, life's tough. I think one lifetimes enough for most.

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  • Old soldiers don't die, they just slowly fade away.

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  • There is no reason for why we die. Just the byproducts of finite life that we learn to accept.

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  • Make sure you have a distinction between causes and consequences. There are a lot of consequences of death, but the direct cause of death is limited to what happens to a body while it is alive.

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  • out with the old and in with the new.

    make new friends and keep the old one is silver the others gold.

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  • We have to make room for future generations to have a go at it.

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  • I kind of fail to understand this post. I mean, there are reasons for it that don't go to the extent of a divine purpose or anything...

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  • Death is the disease that no organism has ever been able to cure. Too much entropy in a system that needs stability to fight that off forever.

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  • Your born
    you do stuff
    then you die

    and that's all there is.

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