You'll likely start wondering if you're next. Then you might start planning the details of your death in your head. These are all very natural reactions and nothing to worry too much about. The feeling will pass.
You may consider reading up on the death-positive movement to alleviate some of your fears of dying. Disease can sometimes invade the human body with no advanced warning.
Its diagnosis might come too late, making successful treatment impossible. This is one of the things that no matter how much you plan for, the universe may have something different in mind for you. So how can you prepare for the unknown? If you spend your life living in trepidation, you risk losing out on living your life to the fullest.
Worrying about everything that might or could happen may make you fearful of life itself. If you find yourself consumed with thoughts of dying early because of potential disease, consider a visit to your doctor. Explain to them what you're going through and the reasons why you think your health might be in danger. Ask your doctor to order a complete physical and medical workup so that you can either put your mind at ease or begin to seek treatment.
In the event of a serious accident or tragedy that causes death, there's nothing that you can do to change the outcome. You can plan and avoid dangerous activities or situations, but you can't plan for every possibility. When accidents or tragedies happen, they usually happen very fast and can be unavoidable. The best that you can do in these situations is to ensure that you follow all safety precautions and avoid taking foolish risks.
There are other genes that manage these risks by switching genes on and off throughout your life, but that makes the network even more complex and failure-prone.
You end up with an intricate genomic dance going on throughout your whole life. So it's hardly surprising that some genes end up helping you now and harming you later. One example may be Huntington's Disease, a horrible dominant genetic disorder that slowly destroys your brain and kills you. The disease usually starts to affect people in middle age. However, young people with the Huntington's gene have more children on average. It's thought that the Huntington's gene strengthens the immune system by increasing activity of P53, making them healthier and more fertile.
Other possible examples include atherosclerosis, sarcopenia, prostate hypertrophy, osteoporosis, carcinoma, and Alzheimer's disease. As life goes on, your genes effectively stop caring what happens to you. After a certain point, it's so unlikely that you're still alive that your genes can safely assume you'll already be dead. So your genomic programming can contain all sorts of wacky stuff that only kicks in after this point, just because there's no noticeable selection against it.
The really fascinating part by which I mean the really depressing part is how this effect reinforces itself. The more likely it is that you're dead, the less your genes care about you. The less your genes care about you, the more likely it is that you're dead.
This has been going on throughout our evolutionary history, so we've accumulated all sorts of weird malfunctions that kick in late in our lives. The human genome is riddled with them, and most of the genes involved are also part of normal development and reproduction.
These malfunctions cluster around a certain age: the age when evolution stops caring about us because, statistically speaking, we're already dead. So mortality is an evolutionary prophecy that fulfills itself in a multitude of ways. And that's why there's no single key to eternal life. Poor old Gilgamesh. The evolutionary genetics of ageing and longevity. A Darwinian-evolutionary concept of age-related diseases. Antagonistic pleiotropy as a widespread mechanism for the maintenance of polymorphic disease alleles.
Page on sciencedaily. National Park Service. The Immortal Jellyfish. Large-brained mammals live longer. Antioxidant enzyme activities are not broadly correlated with longevity in 14 vertebrate endotherm species. This question originally appeared on Quora. Discuss with a friend or family member how different the food chain might look if death was not a part of the life cycle.
Wouldn't it be great if everyone could live forever? Or would it? What do you think? No one ever likes to lose a loved one. But what problems might exist for Earth and its population if people lived forever. As medicine and modern technology advance, people do seem to be living longer lives.
What consequences have longer life spans caused? Discuss your thoughts with a friend or family member. What possible solutions do you see to those problems?
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Join the Discussion. Dominion Mar 19, Mar 21, We are so sorry for your family's loss, Dominion. Nov 17, Sherry May 6, May 9, Elisa Mar 31, Apr 1, You don't have dead fortnite memes but you have this Christian Durr Nov 14, An other reason people die is because they get severely sick. Cancer, Diabetes, Etc. Dec 5, Faith Oct 23, I have lost many pets an many family members It is very devistating.. I know its hard but im 10 and i can feel the pain but i can also cope with it Im sorry for all of your loss's Madison Jan 26, I feel as if the scientific reason is helpful and explains things for some people, but not always.
Christina fulkerson ; Feb 23, Jadyn Jones Oct 8, Feb 26, We're so sorry to hear that, Christina. Losing a pet is very hard. Jan 29, Thanks for sharing, Madison! Why do people there sorry even though it might have been their fault? Why do people have urges to look pretty? Madison Jan 25, Thank you for sharing your thoughts, Madison! Oct 3, Thanks for being our Wonder Friend, jayda! Sophia Bell Sep 24, Living things have to die, because if there was not death, then the world would not be able to hold all of the living things on earth.
There would be too much of everything. Jan 26, Sep 26, Good point, Sophia! Thanks for sharing! Emmy Sep 18, Why things died because they are done growing like nature. Sep 20, That's true, Emmy! Thanks for being our Wonder Friend! Zoe Emerson Feb 12, I believe that people die because new people and things have to grow into our society. But sadly, nowadays, not everyone is blessed with the cause of death as natural causes.
Now there are accidents, killings, and more sicknesses. It's sad when you really think about it. Feb 13, Zero Dec 19, Wonderopolis are you a bot? Why do you always say the same two things to everybody? Do you live forever as a bot? Those are the questions I need answer :. Dec 19, Brojie Dec 15, Dec 16, Anna Dec 7, Dec 7, Wolf Dec 7, Hello there, Wolf.
Marli Mrs. Murphy's Class Sep 16, Marli, I am sorry for you father, but he will alway be in your heart forever. It's so nice that you're sympathetic to your fellow Wonder Friend, Anna.
We agree with you, Anna and Wolf. It is very difficult to lose someone you love. Sep 28, Sep 16, Jeffery Sep 8, Sep 8, Hello, Jeffery. We are glad you visited Wonderopolis today. We hope you come back soon! Pixie Oct 4, Living forever would be awesome, but I will accept the truth.
Oct 4, May 7, Hi, Connor! Thanks for sharing yours thoughts about this Wonder! Visit again soon! BEN Apr 18, Apr 20, Thanks for joining the discussion, Ben! Wonderopolis Nov 4, Joselyn Williams Feb 21, No,because if ur just immortal u would watch all ur loved ones die.
Feb 23, Thanks for sharing your opinion, Joselyn! That's definitely something to think about! Jenna G. Sep 17, How old is the oldest person alive? If scientists find somthing to make you live forever do you think it will be alot of money?
Thank You! Wonderopolis Sep 18, Jenna Jun 23, I really enjoyed this wonder. I can't wait to read more. The scientific evidence is discussed in other Questions , and we have many articles on the fall and sin. Here we consider what Scripture says about death and how the two revelations might be reconciled. The Bible passages that teach about sin and death are clearly referring to the death of humans.
Do these passages also refer to animals? While animal death and suffering raises other theological questions , it does not contradict Biblical teaching about death as a consequence of sin. One traditional interpretation of Genesis 2—3 is that sin results in physical death.
Humans would have been immortal without sin. Another interpretation of these passages is that the consequence of sin is spiritual death, not physical death. The text of Genesis 2—3 can support an interpretation of the curse as spiritual death. God warned Adam and Eve that they would die in the day they ate from the tree, and yet Adam lived to the age of Gen. What did happen on the day they ate from the tree? Adam and Eve felt shame and were expelled from the Garden, breaking their fellowship with God — spiritual death.
This is a popular idea, but not clear in the Biblical text. Also, consider the Tree of Life. God planted this tree in the garden before the fall Gen. If God created humans as immortal, what was the purpose of the Tree of Life?
It would only be needed if humans were mortal to begin with. In the New Testament, Paul writes much on the relationship between sin and death. Sometimes Paul was clearly referring to spiritual death Rom. This is more explicit in Romans —21 where death is contrasted with the gifts of grace, justification, and righteousness, i.
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