The theory of little scars
Sometimes the world finds out about a famous person’s death. “Died from age”, the reporters say. I don’t understand how someone in their right mind can say such a thing. Age is just a number that shows how old the person is. It doesn’t impact anything directly but the amount of candles on a cake.
The more one lives, the more one has experienced — good and bad. By having a paper cut on my finger I might have let a couple of dangerous bacteriae into my body — nothing excruciating — but many such cuts are lethal. So is the story for any other disease.
People don’t die from age, they die from many little scars that pile up over time.