{"id":110821,"date":"2020-08-03T15:02:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T22:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/how-do-people-actually-die-from-old-age"},"modified":"2020-08-03T15:02:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T22:02:18","slug":"how-do-people-actually-die-from-old-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/how-do-people-actually-die-from-old-age","title":{"rendered":"How Do People Actually \u2018Die From Old Age\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-do-people-actually-die-from-old-age3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, they don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Thousands are currently engaged in solving the problem of death. Maybe they\u2019ll succeed, and out of sheer boredom I\u2019ll reread this sentence when I\u2019m 900 years old, reflecting fondly on the first wasted century of my life. In the meantime, billions are going to die\u2014some from disease, some in freak accidents, and a substantial number from what we generally call \u201cold age.\u201d That last sounds like a pleasant way to go, comparatively\u2014a peaceful winding-down. But what exactly does it look like? What does it really mean to die from old age? For this week\u2019s <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/c\/giz-asks\"> Giz Asks<\/a>, we reached out to a number of experts to find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, they don\u2019t. Thousands are currently engaged in solving the problem of death. Maybe they\u2019ll succeed, and out of sheer boredom I\u2019ll reread this sentence when I\u2019m 900 years old, reflecting fondly on the first wasted century of my life. In the meantime, billions are going to die\u2014some from disease, some in freak accidents, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}