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How exactly does a person die of old age?

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Organ failure : Typically speaking patients advanced ages but die of a specific organ failure. Before the days of advanced diagnostic testing specific cause of death may not have been known but now it is typically either heart failure, heart attack, respiratory failure or kidney failure.

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