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It's true that an autopsy will show a cause of death for anyone. In that sense, you don't "just die".

But after a certain point, that cause of death starts looking pretty meaningless. Everything is failing at once; if you hadn't died of your actual cause of death, you would have died shortly afterwards from another one. In that sense, you do "just die" of old age.



In the UK, old age isn't a legal cause of death for people under 80.




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