Question: why do people die

Ross King answered on 17 Nov 2015:

What a question! Good one though!

People die for lots of different reasons. Of course, where and how we live can have a big effect on this. For instance, different types of diseases might kill us. If there was no disease at all, I still don’t think people would live forever. Over time, our bodies become less good at adapting to our environments and keeping us healthy, so I think we would just gradually deteriorate. We would probably live a bit longer than we do right now, but not much.