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silver_arrow666 t1_jaa0gam wrote

You mostly die because of cell death. Drowning? Lack of oxygen, sad mitochondria, cell death. Smoke? Carbon monoxide prevents your hemoglobin from delivering oxygen to your cell, cell death. Cancer? Your body cannot bring needed materials to your cell (since the cancer is taking it all), cell death. Hunger? No food, no energy for your cells, cell death. Fire? Proteins denaturing, cell death (also some other reactions, but that is already enough to kill your cells). EVERYTHING IS CELL DEATH!

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Tiggy26668 t1_jab2f6t wrote

Wouldn’t cancer be excessive cell growth?…….

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Originu1 t1_jabgh9d wrote

Which means less nutrition for other cells

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giasumaru t1_jabjdm1 wrote

When we are no longer able to stave off the sweet embrace of entropy.

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lostmypwcanihaveurs t1_jabv1mm wrote

Entropy is a bitch, yo.

I've heard it argued that oxygen reacts with most of what humans are made of on a level that we're essentially slowly burning to death from the moment we're born. On a scale of 1-10, 10 being absolutely bonkers, how unhinged does that sound?

Also, does lack of sleep cause cell death? Seems like you might be the guy to ask.

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silver_arrow666 t1_jabvdca wrote

Yeah, and the only reason we're not constantly on fire is because the oxidation reaction is too slow to be self-sustaining, and it doesn't get hot enough. Regarding sleep deprivation I don't know a lot about it (you need a neurologist or a biologist, and I'm a chemist), but probably yes, since your life sustaining systems would shut down, causing cell death.

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