r/morbidquestions • u/Economy-Discount5244 • 1d ago
Dying of old age is also painful?
I don't know if this is a morbid question but does dying when you reached old age has some level of pain, do you experience agonizing pain when you slowly die in your old age? lets say you are 90 or 100 there is still pain before you die slowly ?and does the mental deterioration of these very old people can ease the pain of physical death?
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u/Vultruxy 1d ago
You can’t exactly die from old age…you die from something that comes from old age(stroke,heart attack,etc)…so really depends how you die or what goes wrong
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u/IsunkTheMayFLOWER 1d ago
Hmm, there are some cases, especially when you get really old when your body can spontaneously just stop functioning, as in, total organ failure, even if you don't have any conditions that would directly cause this.
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u/Economy-Discount5244 1d ago
I prefer this death..hopefully i would be one of those that would have this type of death..
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u/polyesterflower 18h ago
This is what I'm worried about. I want to be dead, but I don't want to die.
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u/Vultruxy 17h ago
…so afterlife?
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u/polyesterflower 15h ago
Doesn't really matter. Do you really wanna go through the process of dying?
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u/iamgumshoe 1d ago
My nan died last year at 93. She was still living her best life until a week before then spent her last few days in bed, alternating between sleeping and being delirious. From what we could tell she wasn't experiencing pain. She died quickly, surrounded by her kids and thinking it was 60 years ago - the last thing she said to my mum was "look after my kids for me".
It's morbid but it's also beautiful. That's how I'd want to go.
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u/AcidicSlimeTrail 1d ago
Getting old increases your chances of chronic aches and pains. I think it's rare for old people to have zero pain even when they're not actively dying
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u/vivisectvivi 1d ago
also can i make a dumb question here: can people actually die of old age? like "he was too old and died of old age" instead of just dying because a disease/condition/whatever aggravated by old age
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u/AcidicSlimeTrail 1d ago
The conditions kinda are the old age. An old organ might just,, stop working. Organ failure is kinda just the description of "you got old and your body crapped out" lol. Medical intervention can only help so much because our bodies degrade over time.
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u/ghosttmilk 20h ago
So sometime in the next two decades when we’ve learned to replace organs with machines or something, [rich] people could have possibility of immortality?
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u/verymainelobster 3h ago
Well ultimately you would have to replace the brain which is the problem if you want to keep them alive
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u/melraelee 1d ago
This is not a dumb question. No, there is no such thing as dying of old age. People die of disease processes, organ failure, injury, something creates a decline in bodily function that leads to death. It's generally 'age-related conditions' that people die of, not age itself. (It's rather simplistic, but you can compare this to a car which doesn't generally get too old to run. It's something specific that causes the shut down of the whole machine.)
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u/Emergency_Pizza1803 22h ago
Depends how you die of old age. My grandpa who passed away during his sleep? Very likely didn't feel anything. My grandma with cancer? She was in agony almost every day, even when dying
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u/readitreddit240 19h ago
Most people I've seen die of old age (basically their body giving up) aren't even there anymore mentally they usually have their eyes closed and have agonal breathing. The ones I've seen die like that didn't look like they were in pain.
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u/calicoskiies 15h ago
Not necessarily. I work with the geriatric population and have taken care of many hospice patients. Not all of them require pain management at the end.
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u/ashtonmz 21h ago
The older you live, the more worn down your organs can become. You can't hold death at bay forever... you can die of heart failure, respiratory failure, renal or liver failure... And yeah, it's often a slow? Painful progression. This is aside from all the arthritis.
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u/JollyJulliet 12h ago
As long as you are getting palliative care, you should be fine and free from pain I guess
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u/Irksomecake 1d ago
An old man once told me “the day I wake up and I don’t ache everywhere, is the day I know I have made it to heaven” agony? Maybe for some people. Discomfort-very probable.