As someone who just pronounced their first patient recently, this video is 100% accurate. "Natural causes" is not acceptable as part of cause of death; it's always like "respiratory failure" or "cardiopulmonary arrest".
And you can't even put that on the death cert! (I.e. heart failure or resp failure). My tutor always said rather dryly "yes. People die because their hearts, lungs or brain stops breathing. That's not the question here."
I've always thought of "dying of old age" as more of a societal way of talking about someone's death, rather than a medical way, usually when someone's reached a point of frailty that their end seems eminent even if you're not yet sure from what. My grandmother was close to 90, but in excellent health, so to me she died of cancer. On the other hand, my grandfather's health was deteriorating for years, and after his wife died and he needed to move into a care home he didn't have much to live for anymore. So to me he died of old age.
@@theender664 It’s just because “in excellent health” isn’t something you usually associate with cancer, so I can see where the confusion comes from. Edit: Guys, I’m about to blow your mind, but me explaining why someone is confused isn’t the same as me being confused myself. There’s no need to explain to me what the OP was saying here, thanks.
My father died of cardiac failure due to respiratory failure due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. My sister was shocked at the specificity of his death certificate. She saw that certificate 33 years after he died.
It's funny, and a bit melancholic, how those words make objective sense yet at the same time, could be unfathomable word salad depending on the context its presented.
@@Graphomite I was assigned autosomal recessive inheritance in a genetics class the spring after me dad died. I used his family as an example of that, as he was the third ALS death in that family. His sister died of it also 16 years after he died.
As a child I never understood what it meant to die of old age...I always thought "there must be a reason they die...they don't just...stop being alive". Guess I was right
DNA is limited by the length of telomeres, once those run out, you begin to die from old age. Which leads to organ failure. Technically dying of organ failure, but it's exclusively because of old age.
@@greenytoaster Unless your Shakespear using allegory to describe shut eyes --no, sleep is not like death. If we're being scientific, which we are, sleep is an active state in which the body focuses on rejuvenation. It's only relation to death is as a prevention of death. I'm all for poetry, but we shouldn't be using it to undo clarity by "correcting" people with twisty language. That pushes ignorant discussion. Sleep is not similar to death much like old age is not a cause of death. If we really gotta use subjective pros, we could accurately say sleep is the _opposite_ of death, since sleep and death are converse states.
I'm glad we're talking about aging. For those who want to know more, I highly recommend the book "Ending Aging" by Aubrey de Grey and Michael Rae. It dedicates a chapter to each of the 7 causes of aging, their potential solutions, the hurdles along the way, and a short sort of PR-guide because the concept of "ending aging" is rightly viewed with suspicion. It's completely changed the way I think about the topic and kinda the course of my life. If you're wondering, they're - Stem cell depletion, cancer, senescent cells (that don't die when they should), mitochondrial mutations, intra and extra-cellular waste, and extracellular matrix stiffening.
The 7 causes of aging is now 9-11 Hallmarks of aging with another 18 or so hallmarks being candidates to add to the list. We will probably have some decent rejuvenation, anti-aging, lifespan/healthspan extension, and regenerative biomedical treatments in the next few decades though (I expect to see some early applications beginning to creep into standard medical practice during the 2020s, though I believe we will still need a steady stream of new advances and breakthroughs throughout the 2030s, 2040s, and 2050s and beyond.
@@ArticBlueFox96 When I first started reading the first part of your comment, I thought you were talking about the emergency Hotline 911. Then I thought Nah, maybe it's an analogy for 9/11 (in the kind of "the worst thing to happen" or something like that). I only realized how simple the real meaning was when I kept on reading and reached the "18" part - which was just a few words ahead.
I like David Sinclair's book "Lifespan: Why We Age and Why We Don't Have To." I've heard of Aubrey de Grey, but I never looked into him other than being jealous of his hair.
@@DrPonner yeah, honorable. But aside from getting into a stupid accident, old people usually feel when they gonna die. Mom works with them and most often they simply stop eating stuff, so they'll get at least water until also they won't drink anymore. It's tricky from a care perspective, and there's the rule of keeping them fed n stuff, but that's basically how a "normal" death would look like
When I ask about the causes of deaths in my wife's family, I'm often told "he was 93", or whatever as if that's reason enough to die. It's aggravating because if there's a cause it can lead to family history information which could lead to tests to catch things early.
Women always lie about their family diseases, the reason is simple - evolutionary they think if you are equal or better looking than her then it's possible you have better genes that can fix THEIR bloodline, but very often your children suffer from inheriting their mother's bad genes. So their bloodline is fkdup (simplifying things 50% of which is YOURS) and that's why your best evolutionary bet is to make new offspring(s) from different and genetically healthier woman. And that's why most hate eugenicists, because they are right. Better test than sorry, knowledge and technology are here for that
Actually, at 93 it’s really hard to link anything to hereditary risk. Your body accumulated enough damages (mutated DNA, ROS, misfolded protein etc, that sort of damage) over the years to make any person have some kind of issue.
If I remember correctly the oldest person in the world died do to their body literally rotting on them. As in they lived so long there body just started breaking down on them until the needed organs to function could no longer do so.
This is very true. You can’t die from being too old. We usually die when we’re old because being old causes you to be more susceptible to various health conditions which your body doesn’t have the right amount of strength to fight off compared to when you were young.
@@greeng6914 if your body is uncapable of producing new cells to replenish vital organs or just uncapabble or too weak to properly pump enough nutrients to your cells you'll still have a designated cause of death, may that be a stroke, organ failure, heart attack, asphyxiation etc. Those are also death causes, you wont simply reach 200 years old and meet real life's death screen
This implies that immortality is an available possibility when it’s not. It’s a meaningless semantic distinction. All organisms have a finite lifespan, therefore you do in fact die of old age once you reach it. There’s a reason why there’s been very few supercentenarians.
This fact and explanation are oddly empowering for me. This means that I can actively work to stay alive longer instead of being afraid of the eventual immediate, random, unexplainable termination of existence that I once thought death was. Humans are far more in control of their lifespan than I had once thought.
I would argue that while this is definitely true, there are still many ways to die spontaneously and unexpectedly with nothing you can do to prevent it :/
But... we are lazy. Tell humans you have discovered the fountain of youth that will grant them 20 more years of life...but... you have to diet to lose weight, exercise daily, and eat healthy, then 90% of them will refuse.
There are things that are beyond your control, and some day, no matter how well you have stacked your cards, you will lose the game. But I am totally convinced that one of the things that regularly kills people is that they think they are old and close to death, and there isn't time anymore for learning, sport, eating healthy, treating sickness... If you stop taking care of yourself, you will die, no matter if you are 30 or 70.
I mean, sort of... But ultimately the outcome is the same and we don't have that much control over it. Some people do everything they can possibly do to stay healthy and nonetheless suffer a fatal heart attack at 60, while others smoke and drink and never exercise and live into their 90s. There's just too many factors for us to really be in control of, many of which we still don't fully understand, and some that are written into our DNA from the moment we're conceived.
@@StanSlaughter I think a big part of it is that there's so much statistical variation, that even if there's a solid chance that keeping yourself in shape will extend your life, there's still a very sizeable chance that it won't. Probably a similar phenomenon to smokers seeing the odd smoker living to be over 100, and thinking that they still have a chance to life as long of a life.
As someone whose father passed away of pancreatic cancer in 2018 I would much rather know why my loved ones died then just saying they died “of natural causes” because I believe that’s not revealing the full story because I’m a massive advocate in full disclosure to a degree and even though it may be hard to hear, it can also help with the grieving process
It can also help in building a medical history. Saying someone died of cancer lets their descendants know that they may be genetically disposed to it, and so they can get themselves screened and tested as necessary. You can't do anything if all you know is that they died of natural causes.
"I'm a massive advocate for full disclosure to a degree..." Is a hilarious sentence. Full disclosure to a degree is exactly "natural causes" or any other words that don't explicitly state every detail. It may not be to the degree you want, but it is to the degree someone wants. It's pedantic but it genuinely made me laugh to read full disclosure to a degree. Can you elaborate on that?
@@Crusader_MET but it is the particulars of failure that resulted in death. Not the years of wear and tear. Cuz even with all that damage accrued in their old age, they were still alive.
@@Crusader_MET Yes, you are correct, they are arguing semantics. That's the purpose of the video, to remind people that saying someone died of "old age" is a semantic kindness rather than a biological ailment.
@@aniekanumoren6088The cause is still the wear and tear of old age though. For instance the immediate cause of a bridge collapse might be unusually high winds or a small earthquake; but neither of those things would have been able to cause that kind of catastrophic failure if the bridge’s structural integrity hadn’t already been undermined by decades of freezing and thawing resulting in cracks in the concrete which exposed the steel reinforcements to the elements.
As a kid, i always thought about "wait people die just because they're old?", i've always believed that dying of old age wasn't a thing, but being old made you much more vulnerable and for some disease, you would pass out.
I wonder if we will ever learn what the Queen actually died of. There were a few hints in the lead up that she was getting pretty frail, and the relatively sudden nature of her death, after having been seen in public just a few days before, makes me wonder if she maybe had a fall or something.
Could have just been a heart attack. I guess even in death they wanted to keep her medical information private, just as when she started missing engagements they never released any cause but "mobility issues." I don't believe there was anything scandalous about her health issues and her eventual death, but it's still a little irksome that they could get away with putting "old age" on her death certificate when that's not legal for any ordinary folks.
My grandpa never had a proper autopsy when he passed and went straight from the house of my uncle (he lived there) to the crematory, his death certificate says Old Age.
Thank you for this video. I've never been satisfied when I ask what a person died from and the answer is "old age". That is meaningless and doesn't answer the question at all. Something actually had to have happened to cause the death. Personally, if a loved one of mine dies, and im at a place where I can actually ask the coroner/ doctor, I don't want a euphemism. I want to know what actually happened.
@@lyrimetacurl0 Well if you get old and you say, have a total organ failure You died because you had a total organ failure. Being old was a factor, yes, but it's not specific enough.
In Hungarian there is a term that could loosely translate to "terminal asthenia" or "terminal weakening" (végelgyengülés). It's another euphemism, but it captures the process of dying due to the breaking down of internal systems much better than old age.
@@ٴٴٴٴٴٴٴٴٴٴٴٴٴٴ0 you can argue about this cause old age makes all of your organs fall apart over time so there is no significant difference if your heart or something else fails first
Hi, I'm a UK doctor and this is a fundamental misunderstanding of how we fill out death certificates. Not sure about other countries but here you list (1a,1b and 2) 1- the actual cause of death (cardiac arrest or similar) 2- the factors that directly led to this 3 - the underlying conditions that lead to this e.g. Old age. You can give most parts of the death cert in this way and the public tend to focus on the contributing conditions. Specifically the 1b. Some doctors also do occasionally move 1b to 1a to help families if we think they're particularly acopic. 2 is also technically a cause of death and since they're all on there then when celebs etc die they give one of the nicer causes.
Iam qualified philosopher and knowing what time does, I don't have any problem for qualifying age as a cause of death. Is it relative yes, did we know that before?
So, can you explain about the Queen's official cause of death being "old age"? Is that what her actual death certificate said? Are death certificates public information in the UK? Is it legal just to put "old age"? In all decency, I would not suggest anything was fishy about her death, but it sure doesn't seem like any ordinary folk are entitled to this level of medical privacy.
better help is a garbage site that sells your data and was just recently in trouble by the FTC because of it. I suggest you find a different sponsor that doesnt profit off their patients data while promising privacy
Googling Better Help FTC helpfully pops up the press release about why they need to pay millions of dollars (namely, lying about privacy and confidentiality and selling sensitive health data to Facebook and other advertisers)
@gereniccc4487 better help is straight up horrible therapy service. Ranging from unprofessional doctor to them selling your supposedly confidential patient data.
1:59 ❤this is such a sweet statement, it truly truly put a positive impact on the way I see life ❤ Thank You so much for not making death seem so tragic
Being old is not the problem, but the body losing the ability to repair itself is. The pain begins to come from all places at once as the nerves begin to misfire and every would leaves permanent scars no matter how small. That's why stealing someone else's body every fifty or so years can keep you young and healthy no matter how old you are. And if it breaks before time then just get reborn and after a few slow and boring decade or so you're back to your strong, healthy eternal self.
Great grandma. By the way, I have difficulty communicating because I had a stroke in Broca’s area, the part of the brain that controls speech. 2/8/2021 but I lived again. (My wife helped me compose this.)
Very disappointed to see you left the Better Health ad-read in, after they were exposed to have horrible patient quotas for their counsellors, and have been selling client data.
That is quite hard to do, possibly impossible. But, the happy news is dcientists have found ways to significantly increase not only lifespan but also healthspan. We could live 100-300 years healthy and happy.
How quickly we seem to have forgotten that Better Help was exposed years ago for a litany of issues, including no regulation in the quality of therapy, unqualified therapists giving contradictory advice, selling mental health info of patients to 3rd parties, greatly underpaying therapists, and giving potentially dangerous advice on medications and mental health in general.
yall dont know how much i appreciate the bridge made to the sponsor. my grandma (together with her doctor) chose to end it a couple of months ago, because while she physically stayed well for a long time, mentally it was pretty tough (until she stopped doing fun things, but that mainly just impacted her mobility which in turn impacted mental health strongly). I'm glad she found peace in that way because it was awful seeing her struggle so much, but you are entirely correct that mental health is, too, such an important factor in "dying of old age" and im glad it's mentioned. Thank you
i've always been fine with chalking things up to old age simply for the reason that, honestly, most of the things we say people die of technically aren't true either. no one dies of gun violence, they die of blood loss. no one dies of suicide, they die of asphyxiation, or heart failure through intoxication, etc. but when we say these things, what we really mean is "what was the catalyst for their death" and so saying old age just does make sense if we're refering to anything other than a medical certificate of death
Bro I was right… When I was younger I used to say “you can’t die from old age, you die of organ failure.” But that was always shot down cuz my brother would go, “ their organs are falling cus they’re old, so they die from old age.” And I never knew how to respond so I dropped it forever ago
I already knew this, but I remember how surprised I was when I first learned this, even though it's really quite obvious once you hear the explanation.
Same… we are all on the same boat, and that should make us more accepting of it, but sometimes it’s hard to accept… I guess that when you get old your mind is also much more predisposed to the acceptance of it, or so I like to think. Hopefully our conscience will live on, somewhere else, some how. Hopefully death won’t be the end, but a new beginning. They also say that when you die your brain produces a certain substance that alleviates any sense of pain and takes you into a state of grace and bliss.
Several people have mentioned "natural causes". I think this is a somewhat legalistic term and is one of a set of broad classes under the "manner of death" (see wikipedia) which also includes homicides, suicides, and accidents. I don't think it appears much on the death certificate as the cause of death.
Yeah this perfectly make sense as aging isn’t the leading cause of death, but rather a stage where your body won’t normally function anymore and cause one or more organs degrade. If one organ dies, everything else dies and so “old age” is a natural word for living life to the fullest, even if they can’t do anything about it when death is already besides you.
This is right. My mom died in ages 55. She's not old, but suffer like old woman. She actually has bladder cancer that make his blood circulation in her kidney didn't works well. She can live through cancer for 5 years, but can't live with the effect of it. After the cancer growth bigger enough to disturb kidney function, she was become really weak. It made the blood that goes from kidney don't circulate and make toxic blood in her head. In her last 5 day i can't even talk to her. She died in August 22, 2023 but actually for me she was died in August 17, 2023. I am sorry mom i can't make you happy in your last 10 years of our life without dead. I wonder if i can talk to you again. I wish you would be happy in afterlife. Didn't need to suffer from cancer anymore.
A character in a Li'l Abner story line craved the special deference accorded to dying people. She had doctors declare they had diagnosed her with a "fatal case of senescence"
Yes.. It always goes like this. Cardio-pulmonary arrest following bilateral lobar pneumonia complicated with septicemia, in the background of uncontrolled diabetes mellitus, chronic kidney disease and ischemic heart disease.
In the UK the term “old age” on death certificates changed due partly/majorly to Harold Shipman using old age to cover up the murders of his patients. This paved the way for malpractice to be identified and not blame the age of the deceased on their death.
Invictus by William Ernest Henley: Out of the night that covers me; Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud; Under the bludgeonings of chance, My head is bloody but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears; Looms but the horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate; How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
In the UK, old age is really only given in very specific scenarios. Specifically a doctor caring has noticed a gradual decline in health and functioning over at least a year and there isn't any factors that would be required to report to a coroner. The person also has to be above 80.
As you get older your body just starts breaking down more and more until eventually you just end up dying from one of your systems failing and that's what I consider dying a bold age versus something specific like COVID-19 or a car crushing you with its tires.
But the old age causes one to not be able to fight off a pneumonia, for example. How far up or down the causal chain do we define the "cause of death" to be? Cause of death: birth? When are you even actually dead? When your brain is still active but your heart isn't pumping, or the other way around? Cause of death: dying.
I was just having this conversation with my sister a few weeks ago I kept telling her no one dies of old age but she didn't listen, she kept telling me that people die around an old age and I just kept saying that people are move vunerable to desease at old age I guess I was just a bad talker and spoke in a bad tone I wish I wasn't so aggressive all the time, wish I talked more soothingly Love you, sis
To be fair, some people just have their hearts get so weak even the slightest disturbance finishes them off. Aging is itself a chronic degenerative and deadly disease (as recognized by the WHO). It is, to say the least, a comorbidity just as would be the case with most injuries or diseases (you don't die of a bullet wound, you die of your organs failing due to blood loss, poisoning, etc). As are the particular cocktail of genetic defects the victim carried, for any given person's homeostasis is far from ideal due to genetic variance, especially at old age. High cholesterol, blood pressure, coagulating, insulin levels, osteoporosis, parkinson, alzheimer, and such to name a few. Diseases don't happen in a vacuum, genetic predispositions are mostly necessary for the root causes of most "natural" causes of death.
0:06 yeah he's right... You're going to suffocate inside of your skeleton while your brain is still working, You're going to feel every last exhausting leaving out of you... until the last light :( that's Probably why he doesn't want to talk about old age
so all you gotta do is just avoid these inevitable symptoms and you could theoretically become immortal with the probability of course being in the decimals
@@cartooncatboy3009 okay but how..? hypothetically, if dying of old age isn't tied to age and more to tied to these symptoms, then hypothetically speaking; if you were to avoid the symptoms you don't die, right?
Heard of a case where a betterhelp therapist advised a gay person to "stop being gay" as a fix for their mental health issues. Probably not a great sponsor guys..
I don't know the story or reference. So i cannot say anything of the particular case. But, regardless of that, i can easily see "... stop being gay as a fix for their mental health issues" as being a totally credible therapy. Gay is a label or a external persona. Such as many old other labels. Given the trend for more fluid gender accepting lately (just lightly skimming a rabbit hole here). And if one has real difficulties to accept some gendered social labels. Instead of trying to be forced to be this or that and constantly suffer doubt and pressions from those external expectations. Why not try to just be oneself? I myself am able to deal with one such label (a more traditional one in my personal case), but not everyone can do it for whatever reason (if reason there must be).
Definitely not a good look to have a sponsor allows anti-LGBTQ practices AND who the FTC just announced will have to pay millions of dollars for lying about privacy and confidentiality and selling sensitive health info to Facebook and other advertisers.
Dying of old age happens in roguelike games where specific monsters and traps can forcibly age your characters past the maximum lifespan of the character's ancestry.
I... Didn't realize people thought the phrase to be literal. I had assumed from stage 1 it was a catch-all to cover the expected death of someone who's physical well-being was in severe decline due to aging (or, for the overly-literal, the decline of organ function).
The FTC just announced Better Help will be paying millions of dollars for lying about privacy and confidentiality and selling sensitive health info to Facebook and other advertisers, so no, they have not gotten better. (That doesn't even get into their anti-LGBTQ practices.)
My great grandfather died from old age. He was 91 and completely healthy But one day he felt tired and took a nap and never woke up. No sickness, no heart attack or stroke. He just passed away, probably the best way to go
Loved the video, thumbed it down for the Better Help sponsorship. Why are you partnering with an organization that recommends doctors who would suggest "have you tried just not being gay" to a patient that was dealing with abandonment after their family disowned them? They also stop paying doctors after x number of words through written communication with a patient to encourage more video calls that they can charge the patient for.
That for sure plus they also just got hit by the FTC for lying about privacy and confidentiality selling users' sensitive health info, including things like info about therapy usage, to advertisers and other third parties. Bad news ALL around.
Oh, so THAT'S why I saw some other comments saying how better help was a bad sponsor, with no further explanation. This seems horrible. Also, psychologists are not doctors, unless better help only hires psychiatrists? Or the problem lies only on the psychiatrists?
@@tttITA10 They're just a shitty company all around. It honestly wouldn't surprise me to find out they were offering psychiatric services and setting the people up with a church counselor instead.
do you remember recently they announced that the Queen died of old age.. i was saying that that's nonsence, but people said im crazy.. and here we go. Thank you for making this video, guys
Learned a lot from your video, so thanks, but the sponsor in the end? How can you seriously claim an online session would be equal to a personal session. That's ridiculous and unethical.
I've always been confused when people say "they died of old age" or "they dies from natural causes" I'm always like "okay... so what did they die from?"
Whoa whoa whoa, I have heard some awful things about better help, especially towards queer clients and selling data to third parties. I am all for therapy but this one seems to do a lot more harm than good. I expected your team would do a lot more research into your sponsors than this.
The FTC just announced Better Help has indeed been selling sensitive health data to third parties like advertisers and lying to users about it. I agree, super disappointed in this sponsorship choice!
Huh. I never knew that. But this is an amazing concept, truly, I do like the idea that we die by a cause and not an "old age". I've never believed old age was the reason, but I never had an explanation for it until today. This was the best 2 minutes and 13 seconds I've spent on TH-cam
I read an article about the oldest woman alive at her time dying at like 118 and scientists said she had two remaining stem cells. The article said that the reason we can't live forever even if we never encounter injury or illness is we eventually run out of stem cells no matter what. If anyone could shed some more light on that notion I'd be fascinated to read it.
@@ianmcalindon9385 betterhelp is known for being controversial and sharing their clients' private information; if you want for more details abt it, there's a lot of vids in here talking abt why betterhelp shouldn't be trusted
Anybody who has watched an elderly relative die of old age might scoff at this video. Geriatricians will tell you that at some point the cumulative decline in body systems just reaches a point where life becomes unsustainable. And most of the diagnoses they guess at are just that - guesses. I think more than anything they just satisfy the basic human need to understand things.
@@MinuteEarth Obviously. I was disagreeing with you. I have a good science background, and I regulated physicians for over 40 years. My comments were based on what geriatricians, hem/oncs, cardiologists and others have said many, many times. You can only analyze a cause of death so far, and in the elderly the stated causes are often simply because state law requires something be listed. Many doctors say old age is actually more accurate.
As someone who just pronounced their first patient recently, this video is 100% accurate. "Natural causes" is not acceptable as part of cause of death; it's always like "respiratory failure" or "cardiopulmonary arrest".
It's like 'natural' food. They should go eat an organic, wild, natural Death Cap mushroom to experience a 'natural' death.
ALL deaths come from one singular cause:
NO OXYGEN (to the thinky thinky part, mostly)
@@Crusader_MET well the brain gets shredded like swiss cheese and the blood stops coming to you brain since it's all bleeding out
Nobody ever died of old age lmao
And you can't even put that on the death cert! (I.e. heart failure or resp failure). My tutor always said rather dryly "yes. People die because their hearts, lungs or brain stops breathing. That's not the question here."
"Old age isn't something you die from, is something you live for" is an extremely inspiring quote. Thanks, MinuteEarth!
Hardest minuteearth quote tbh
I had to replay that just to hear and process it again. It really is a great sentence.
AND THE PICTURE WAS SO CUTE
Honestly, I think people do "die" for old age, but only as a result of wasting their time.
Yes please I want to live up to ninety years of age, when I won't even be able to shit myself without someone other's help
I've always thought of "dying of old age" as more of a societal way of talking about someone's death, rather than a medical way, usually when someone's reached a point of frailty that their end seems eminent even if you're not yet sure from what. My grandmother was close to 90, but in excellent health, so to me she died of cancer. On the other hand, my grandfather's health was deteriorating for years, and after his wife died and he needed to move into a care home he didn't have much to live for anymore. So to me he died of old age.
you mean the reverse right?
@@gamingwithpapaandfriends why would he mean reverse
It suits perfectly
@@theender664 It’s just because “in excellent health” isn’t something you usually associate with cancer, so I can see where the confusion comes from.
Edit: Guys, I’m about to blow your mind, but me explaining why someone is confused isn’t the same as me being confused myself. There’s no need to explain to me what the OP was saying here, thanks.
@@sunchips18In the sense that the cancer appeared suddenly.
@@sunchips18 they were in good health until the cancer came
My father died of cardiac failure due to respiratory failure due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. My sister was shocked at the specificity of his death certificate. She saw that certificate 33 years after he died.
It's funny, and a bit melancholic, how those words make objective sense yet at the same time, could be unfathomable word salad depending on the context its presented.
@@Graphomite I was assigned autosomal recessive inheritance in a genetics class the spring after me dad died. I used his family as an example of that, as he was the third ALS death in that family. His sister died of it also 16 years after he died.
ALS is a horrible way to go, I’m sorry
@@cat-.- Thank you
@@chiekomotomura8283ew fatherless 💩
As a child I never understood what it meant to die of old age...I always thought "there must be a reason they die...they don't just...stop being alive". Guess I was right
well you were smarter than me because I thought they just fell asleep and just didn't wake up
@@kimaya.3563 😂
@@kimaya.3563 well in a way that's true, it's just a lot more complicated than that lol
DNA is limited by the length of telomeres, once those run out, you begin to die from old age. Which leads to organ failure. Technically dying of organ failure, but it's exclusively because of old age.
@@greenytoaster Unless your Shakespear using allegory to describe shut eyes --no, sleep is not like death. If we're being scientific, which we are, sleep is an active state in which the body focuses on rejuvenation. It's only relation to death is as a prevention of death. I'm all for poetry, but we shouldn't be using it to undo clarity by "correcting" people with twisty language. That pushes ignorant discussion. Sleep is not similar to death much like old age is not a cause of death. If we really gotta use subjective pros, we could accurately say sleep is the _opposite_ of death, since sleep and death are converse states.
"Good News, we're not dying, we're gonna live forever".
I wish it was true😭
Lolmao
"I did not say that, I said we're not filled with tumors!"
Tf2
@@unit0713"Oh thank god"
I'm glad we're talking about aging. For those who want to know more, I highly recommend the book "Ending Aging" by Aubrey de Grey and Michael Rae. It dedicates a chapter to each of the 7 causes of aging, their potential solutions, the hurdles along the way, and a short sort of PR-guide because the concept of "ending aging" is rightly viewed with suspicion.
It's completely changed the way I think about the topic and kinda the course of my life.
If you're wondering, they're - Stem cell depletion, cancer, senescent cells (that don't die when they should), mitochondrial mutations, intra and extra-cellular waste, and extracellular matrix stiffening.
The 7 causes of aging is now 9-11 Hallmarks of aging with another 18 or so hallmarks being candidates to add to the list. We will probably have some decent rejuvenation, anti-aging, lifespan/healthspan extension, and regenerative biomedical treatments in the next few decades though (I expect to see some early applications beginning to creep into standard medical practice during the 2020s, though I believe we will still need a steady stream of new advances and breakthroughs throughout the 2030s, 2040s, and 2050s and beyond.
@@ArticBlueFox96 When I first started reading the first part of your comment, I thought you were talking about the emergency Hotline 911. Then I thought Nah, maybe it's an analogy for 9/11 (in the kind of "the worst thing to happen" or something like that).
I only realized how simple the real meaning was when I kept on reading and reached the "18" part - which was just a few words ahead.
I hope I get to live in a future where I, and I alone, decide when and how I can die, not others and not nature.
I like David Sinclair's book "Lifespan: Why We Age and Why We Don't Have To."
I've heard of Aubrey de Grey, but I never looked into him other than being jealous of his hair.
@@DrPonner yeah, honorable. But aside from getting into a stupid accident, old people usually feel when they gonna die. Mom works with them and most often they simply stop eating stuff, so they'll get at least water until also they won't drink anymore. It's tricky from a care perspective, and there's the rule of keeping them fed n stuff, but that's basically how a "normal" death would look like
my granny was 97 when she passed, it was a clot that went from her leg to her heart in the end, but she was otherwise very healthy for her age
When I ask about the causes of deaths in my wife's family, I'm often told "he was 93", or whatever as if that's reason enough to die. It's aggravating because if there's a cause it can lead to family history information which could lead to tests to catch things early.
Maybe their lineage signed a pact specifying that they'll be killed at a certain age
Women always lie about their family diseases, the reason is simple - evolutionary they think if you are equal or better looking than her then it's possible you have better genes that can fix THEIR bloodline, but very often your children suffer from inheriting their mother's bad genes. So their bloodline is fkdup (simplifying things 50% of which is YOURS) and that's why your best evolutionary bet is to make new offspring(s) from different and genetically healthier woman. And that's why most hate eugenicists, because they are right. Better test than sorry, knowledge and technology are here for that
Actually, at 93 it’s really hard to link anything to hereditary risk. Your body accumulated enough damages (mutated DNA, ROS, misfolded protein etc, that sort of damage) over the years to make any person have some kind of issue.
If I remember correctly the oldest person in the world died do to their body literally rotting on them. As in they lived so long there body just started breaking down on them until the needed organs to function could no longer do so.
Family history matters for conditions that appear earlier than normal. At 93 you're at risk from everything.
This is very true. You can’t die from being too old. We usually die when we’re old because being old causes you to be more susceptible to various health conditions which your body doesn’t have the right amount of strength to fight off compared to when you were young.
Doesn't that mean naturel death does exist? We naturally kind of expire. Unless they find some med cure to stop it or slow that down.
Hence, it's still because you're old. 😂
@@greeng6914 if your body is uncapable of producing new cells to replenish vital organs or just uncapabble or too weak to properly pump enough nutrients to your cells you'll still have a designated cause of death, may that be a stroke, organ failure, heart attack, asphyxiation etc. Those are also death causes, you wont simply reach 200 years old and meet real life's death screen
This implies that immortality is an available possibility when it’s not. It’s a meaningless semantic distinction. All organisms have a finite lifespan, therefore you do in fact die of old age once you reach it. There’s a reason why there’s been very few supercentenarians.
@@IAmPlaysWithSquirrelImmortality is definitely an available possibility
This fact and explanation are oddly empowering for me. This means that I can actively work to stay alive longer instead of being afraid of the eventual immediate, random, unexplainable termination of existence that I once thought death was. Humans are far more in control of their lifespan than I had once thought.
I would argue that while this is definitely true, there are still many ways to die spontaneously and unexpectedly with nothing you can do to prevent it :/
But... we are lazy. Tell humans you have discovered the fountain of youth that will grant them 20 more years of life...but... you have to diet to lose weight, exercise daily, and eat healthy, then 90% of them will refuse.
There are things that are beyond your control, and some day, no matter how well you have stacked your cards, you will lose the game.
But I am totally convinced that one of the things that regularly kills people is that they think they are old and close to death, and there isn't time anymore for learning, sport, eating healthy, treating sickness...
If you stop taking care of yourself, you will die, no matter if you are 30 or 70.
I mean, sort of... But ultimately the outcome is the same and we don't have that much control over it. Some people do everything they can possibly do to stay healthy and nonetheless suffer a fatal heart attack at 60, while others smoke and drink and never exercise and live into their 90s. There's just too many factors for us to really be in control of, many of which we still don't fully understand, and some that are written into our DNA from the moment we're conceived.
@@StanSlaughter I think a big part of it is that there's so much statistical variation, that even if there's a solid chance that keeping yourself in shape will extend your life, there's still a very sizeable chance that it won't. Probably a similar phenomenon to smokers seeing the odd smoker living to be over 100, and thinking that they still have a chance to life as long of a life.
As someone whose father passed away of pancreatic cancer in 2018 I would much rather know why my loved ones died then just saying they died “of natural causes” because I believe that’s not revealing the full story because I’m a massive advocate in full disclosure to a degree and even though it may be hard to hear, it can also help with the grieving process
It can also help in building a medical history. Saying someone died of cancer lets their descendants know that they may be genetically disposed to it, and so they can get themselves screened and tested as necessary. You can't do anything if all you know is that they died of natural causes.
"I'm a massive advocate for full disclosure to a degree..." Is a hilarious sentence. Full disclosure to a degree is exactly "natural causes" or any other words that don't explicitly state every detail. It may not be to the degree you want, but it is to the degree someone wants. It's pedantic but it genuinely made me laugh to read full disclosure to a degree. Can you elaborate on that?
@@randoprior4130 (I’m a massive advocate in full disclosure) to a degree
Thank you for explaining this, I always wondered how someone can die just because old age without something to happen
Tuscon electric power
It's like losing at Tetris from playing too long
@@Crusader_MET but it is the particulars of failure that resulted in death. Not the years of wear and tear. Cuz even with all that damage accrued in their old age, they were still alive.
@@Crusader_MET Yes, you are correct, they are arguing semantics. That's the purpose of the video, to remind people that saying someone died of "old age" is a semantic kindness rather than a biological ailment.
@@aniekanumoren6088The cause is still the wear and tear of old age though. For instance the immediate cause of a bridge collapse might be unusually high winds or a small earthquake; but neither of those things would have been able to cause that kind of catastrophic failure if the bridge’s structural integrity hadn’t already been undermined by decades of freezing and thawing resulting in cracks in the concrete which exposed the steel reinforcements to the elements.
As a kid, i always thought about "wait people die just because they're old?", i've always believed that dying of old age wasn't a thing, but being old made you much more vulnerable and for some disease, you would pass out.
I wonder if we will ever learn what the Queen actually died of. There were a few hints in the lead up that she was getting pretty frail, and the relatively sudden nature of her death, after having been seen in public just a few days before, makes me wonder if she maybe had a fall or something.
Could have just been a heart attack. I guess even in death they wanted to keep her medical information private, just as when she started missing engagements they never released any cause but "mobility issues." I don't believe there was anything scandalous about her health issues and her eventual death, but it's still a little irksome that they could get away with putting "old age" on her death certificate when that's not legal for any ordinary folks.
i think its really scary that we're like machines with parts, and sometimes those parts fuck up and we can't replace them
My grandpa never had a proper autopsy when he passed and went straight from the house of my uncle (he lived there) to the crematory, his death certificate says Old Age.
Thank you for this video. I've never been satisfied when I ask what a person died from and the answer is "old age". That is meaningless and doesn't answer the question at all. Something actually had to have happened to cause the death.
Personally, if a loved one of mine dies, and im at a place where I can actually ask the coroner/ doctor, I don't want a euphemism. I want to know what actually happened.
if the person doesnt want to know what is it just dont tell them at all
if they _do_, then actually tell them
But you do expect if someone was very very old they would just stop working...
@@lyrimetacurl0 I believe the technical term for "just stop working" is "retirement".
Knowing exactly how they die is way better
@@lyrimetacurl0 Well if you get old and you say, have a total organ failure
You died because you had a total organ failure. Being old was a factor, yes, but it's not specific enough.
In Hungarian there is a term that could loosely translate to "terminal asthenia" or "terminal weakening" (végelgyengülés). It's another euphemism, but it captures the process of dying due to the breaking down of internal systems much better than old age.
old age isn't the cause, but it leads to the cause.
@@ٴٴٴٴٴٴٴٴٴٴٴٴٴٴ0 you can argue about this cause old age makes all of your organs fall apart over time so there is no significant difference if your heart or something else fails first
Hi,
I'm a UK doctor and this is a fundamental misunderstanding of how we fill out death certificates.
Not sure about other countries but here you list (1a,1b and 2)
1- the actual cause of death (cardiac arrest or similar)
2- the factors that directly led to this
3 - the underlying conditions that lead to this e.g. Old age.
You can give most parts of the death cert in this way and the public tend to focus on the contributing conditions. Specifically the 1b. Some doctors also do occasionally move 1b to 1a to help families if we think they're particularly acopic.
2 is also technically a cause of death and since they're all on there then when celebs etc die they give one of the nicer causes.
Iam qualified philosopher and knowing what time does, I don't have any problem for qualifying age as a cause of death. Is it relative yes, did we know that before?
So, can you explain about the Queen's official cause of death being "old age"? Is that what her actual death certificate said? Are death certificates public information in the UK? Is it legal just to put "old age"? In all decency, I would not suggest anything was fishy about her death, but it sure doesn't seem like any ordinary folk are entitled to this level of medical privacy.
better help is a garbage site that sells your data and was just recently in trouble by the FTC because of it. I suggest you find a different sponsor that doesnt profit off their patients data while promising privacy
It's only marginally better than getting publicly exploited by Dr. Phil.
This, very much this. Selling mental health info to Facebook etc to try to get more users is really, really bad.
I'm sorry to say this but better help is a scam that snuck it's way back to youtube/TH-cam's there's all sorts of videos about it...
Googling Better Help FTC helpfully pops up the press release about why they need to pay millions of dollars (namely, lying about privacy and confidentiality and selling sensitive health data to Facebook and other advertisers)
More context?
@gereniccc4487 searching a video on it would be better than asking OP
@gereniccc4487 better help is straight up horrible therapy service. Ranging from unprofessional doctor to them selling your supposedly confidential patient data.
@@dyzorted Pfp (Profile picture) and / or Banner Sauce (Source [Artist])? 🗿
Worth noting that jowl sag, while being an (apparently universal) symptom of old age, isn't itself a major cause of death.
I would be surprised if someone thought that was a major cause of death. Don't get it caught in heavy, rotating machinery I guess?
lol
The end quote was super spectaculat....Old is not something you die from but something you live for....brilliant...thanks for sharing!
1:59 ❤this is such a sweet statement, it truly truly put a positive impact on the way I see life ❤ Thank You so much for not making death seem so tragic
Being old is not the problem, but the body losing the ability to repair itself is. The pain begins to come from all places at once as the nerves begin to misfire and every would leaves permanent scars no matter how small. That's why stealing someone else's body every fifty or so years can keep you young and healthy no matter how old you are. And if it breaks before time then just get reborn and after a few slow and boring decade or so you're back to your strong, healthy eternal self.
Orochimaru?
I find virtualizing your consciousness into machines more pleasing
Great grandma. By the way, I have difficulty communicating because I had a stroke in Broca’s area, the part of the brain that controls speech. 2/8/2021 but I lived again. (My wife helped me compose this.)
Bless you and your wife ❤️ I hope you both get to live and enjoy life to the fullest 💕
Very disappointed to see you left the Better Health ad-read in, after they were exposed to have horrible patient quotas for their counsellors, and have been selling client data.
Pretty sure there was no ad-read in this video whatsoever.
There was then. Very glad now to see it gone.
Imma be honest I don’t think I would be like this but I have the sudden feeling of sadness for the old woman drawing at 0:30
Instead of living at old age in the future, why not just get rid of aging?
How would one do that though?
Scientist are working on that but anti aging tech is designed to prolong health spans not life spans
Arguably the biggest debate we have ahead of us as a species. I totally agree with you, but there’s a lot of push back around the idea
That is quite hard to do, possibly impossible. But, the happy news is dcientists have found ways to significantly increase not only lifespan but also healthspan. We could live 100-300 years healthy and happy.
"Where would you be the minute you wake up DEAD?"
This very question has been troubling me for the pas week and I have not found a definitive answer, thank you so much for this amazing video
How quickly we seem to have forgotten that Better Help was exposed years ago for a litany of issues, including no regulation in the quality of therapy, unqualified therapists giving contradictory advice, selling mental health info of patients to 3rd parties, greatly underpaying therapists, and giving potentially dangerous advice on medications and mental health in general.
Woah I thought this was common sense but I’m glad to know more people know about this now!
Great vid ❤
yall dont know how much i appreciate the bridge made to the sponsor. my grandma (together with her doctor) chose to end it a couple of months ago, because while she physically stayed well for a long time, mentally it was pretty tough (until she stopped doing fun things, but that mainly just impacted her mobility which in turn impacted mental health strongly). I'm glad she found peace in that way because it was awful seeing her struggle so much, but you are entirely correct that mental health is, too, such an important factor in "dying of old age" and im glad it's mentioned. Thank you
In Germany it's called "Altersschwäche", which means age fatique and I find that quite fitting
i've always been fine with chalking things up to old age simply for the reason that, honestly, most of the things we say people die of technically aren't true either. no one dies of gun violence, they die of blood loss. no one dies of suicide, they die of asphyxiation, or heart failure through intoxication, etc. but when we say these things, what we really mean is "what was the catalyst for their death" and so saying old age just does make sense if we're refering to anything other than a medical certificate of death
Bro I was right…
When I was younger I used to say “you can’t die from old age, you die of organ failure.” But that was always shot down cuz my brother would go, “ their organs are falling cus they’re old, so they die from old age.” And I never knew how to respond so I dropped it forever ago
you should've told them if some stupid person jumped into a lion enclosure and was killed by a lion did he die of stupidity or due to the lion?
I already knew this, but I remember how surprised I was when I first learned this, even though it's really quite obvious once you hear the explanation.
“Growing old is inevitable. Growing up is optional.”
Im absolutely terrified of getting old. Everytime i think about it makes me want to cry
Same… we are all on the same boat, and that should make us more accepting of it, but sometimes it’s hard to accept…
I guess that when you get old your mind is also much more predisposed to the acceptance of it, or so I like to think.
Hopefully our conscience will live on, somewhere else, some how.
Hopefully death won’t be the end, but a new beginning.
They also say that when you die your brain produces a certain substance that alleviates any sense of pain and takes you into a state of grace and bliss.
Several people have mentioned "natural causes". I think this is a somewhat legalistic term and is one of a set of broad classes under the "manner of death" (see wikipedia) which also includes homicides, suicides, and accidents. I don't think it appears much on the death certificate as the cause of death.
"How did grandpa die?"
"He was murdered."
Yeah this perfectly make sense as aging isn’t the leading cause of death, but rather a stage where your body won’t normally function anymore and cause one or more organs degrade. If one organ dies, everything else dies and so “old age” is a natural word for living life to the fullest, even if they can’t do anything about it when death is already besides you.
This is right. My mom died in ages 55. She's not old, but suffer like old woman. She actually has bladder cancer that make his blood circulation in her kidney didn't works well. She can live through cancer for 5 years, but can't live with the effect of it. After the cancer growth bigger enough to disturb kidney function, she was become really weak. It made the blood that goes from kidney don't circulate and make toxic blood in her head. In her last 5 day i can't even talk to her. She died in August 22, 2023 but actually for me she was died in August 17, 2023.
I am sorry mom i can't make you happy in your last 10 years of our life without dead. I wonder if i can talk to you again. I wish you would be happy in afterlife. Didn't need to suffer from cancer anymore.
A character in a Li'l Abner story line craved the special deference accorded to dying people. She had doctors declare they had diagnosed her with a "fatal case of senescence"
1:57 “So that in the future, old age isn't something you die from; it's something you live for.”
Beautiful
No, not really honestly, I want to die at the age of 80 or 90
Yes..
It always goes like this.
Cardio-pulmonary arrest following bilateral lobar pneumonia complicated with septicemia, in the background of uncontrolled diabetes mellitus, chronic kidney disease and ischemic heart disease.
In the UK the term “old age” on death certificates changed due partly/majorly to Harold Shipman using old age to cover up the murders of his patients. This paved the way for malpractice to be identified and not blame the age of the deceased on their death.
Invictus by William Ernest Henley:
Out of the night that covers me;
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul
In the fell clutch of circumstance,
I have not winced nor cried aloud;
Under the bludgeonings of chance,
My head is bloody but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears;
Looms but the horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate;
How charged with punishments the scroll;
I am the master of my fate;
I am the captain of my soul.
My mom used to recite the first few lines of this. Thank you. (She died of "old age" almost 10 years ago.)
@@missnaomi613 My condolences to you.
@@alphaapple1375 thank you. Seeing this poem actually made me smile.
In the UK, old age is really only given in very specific scenarios. Specifically a doctor caring has noticed a gradual decline in health and functioning over at least a year and there isn't any factors that would be required to report to a coroner. The person also has to be above 80.
As you get older your body just starts breaking down more and more until eventually you just end up dying from one of your systems failing and that's what I consider dying a bold age versus something specific like COVID-19 or a car crushing you with its tires.
But the old age causes one to not be able to fight off a pneumonia, for example. How far up or down the causal chain do we define the "cause of death" to be? Cause of death: birth? When are you even actually dead? When your brain is still active but your heart isn't pumping, or the other way around? Cause of death: dying.
I'm going to keep myself healthy for a long time after seeing this video.
Cool. Make it a lifestyle.
Thank you for putting the sponsor at the end of the video
I was just having this conversation with my sister a few weeks ago
I kept telling her no one dies of old age but she didn't listen, she kept telling me that people die around an old age and I just kept saying that people are move vunerable to desease at old age
I guess I was just a bad talker and spoke in a bad tone
I wish I wasn't so aggressive all the time, wish I talked more soothingly
Love you, sis
did she die?
@@ItsAnthonyy No
1:57 How does MinuteEarth always end with such awesome quotes?!?
This is a gentle reminder to live everyday because you'll be gone much longer.
Thank for the nice short video 🙏🏼
To be fair, some people just have their hearts get so weak even the slightest disturbance finishes them off. Aging is itself a chronic degenerative and deadly disease (as recognized by the WHO). It is, to say the least, a comorbidity just as would be the case with most injuries or diseases (you don't die of a bullet wound, you die of your organs failing due to blood loss, poisoning, etc).
As are the particular cocktail of genetic defects the victim carried, for any given person's homeostasis is far from ideal due to genetic variance, especially at old age. High cholesterol, blood pressure, coagulating, insulin levels, osteoporosis, parkinson, alzheimer, and such to name a few. Diseases don't happen in a vacuum, genetic predispositions are mostly necessary for the root causes of most "natural" causes of death.
This really gives me lots of hope for longer lifespans, especially as a young person
0:06 yeah he's right... You're going to suffocate inside of your skeleton while your brain is still working, You're going to feel every last exhausting leaving out of you... until the last light :( that's Probably why he doesn't want to talk about old age
i love minute earths community! this helped me learn alot, thanks!
1:37 idk about you guys, but i'd be glad if i died like that compared to the other options
Thank you. I always thought the phrase was a bit strange, and wasn't sure why adults at the time were so adamant about it
so all you gotta do is just avoid these inevitable symptoms and you could theoretically become immortal
with the probability of course being in the decimals
No, that’s not how it works even without sickness everyone will die eventually
@@cartooncatboy3009 okay but how..? hypothetically, if dying of old age isn't tied to age and more to tied to these symptoms, then hypothetically speaking; if you were to avoid the symptoms you don't die, right?
this is so informative! So finding the exact cause of things is very important for future patients and general knowledge.
Heard of a case where a betterhelp therapist advised a gay person to "stop being gay" as a fix for their mental health issues. Probably not a great sponsor guys..
I don't know the story or reference. So i cannot say anything of the particular case.
But, regardless of that, i can easily see "... stop being gay as a fix for their mental health issues" as being a totally credible therapy.
Gay is a label or a external persona. Such as many old other labels.
Given the trend for more fluid gender accepting lately (just lightly skimming a rabbit hole here). And if one has real difficulties to accept some gendered social labels. Instead of trying to be forced to be this or that and constantly suffer doubt and pressions from those external expectations. Why not try to just be oneself?
I myself am able to deal with one such label (a more traditional one in my personal case), but not everyone can do it for whatever reason (if reason there must be).
Definitely not a good look to have a sponsor allows anti-LGBTQ practices AND who the FTC just announced will have to pay millions of dollars for lying about privacy and confidentiality and selling sensitive health info to Facebook and other advertisers.
Dying of old age happens in roguelike games where specific monsters and traps can forcibly age your characters past the maximum lifespan of the character's ancestry.
i could technically live forever but life is like a game
it gradually gets harder and harder until you had enough and rage quit
I... Didn't realize people thought the phrase to be literal. I had assumed from stage 1 it was a catch-all to cover the expected death of someone who's physical well-being was in severe decline due to aging (or, for the overly-literal, the decline of organ function).
Nutritional deficiencies and malabsorption are the real killers.
"Doctor we need you to determine the cause of death"
Doctor looks at dead patient
"I dunno, they look like they were pretty old, just put that."
Isn't BetterHelp kinda bad? Or have they gotten better?
The FTC just announced Better Help will be paying millions of dollars for lying about privacy and confidentiality and selling sensitive health info to Facebook and other advertisers, so no, they have not gotten better. (That doesn't even get into their anti-LGBTQ practices.)
This is this is the video I am searching for days
Great video as always!
I thought this was just common knowledge? Something important has to fail to result in death. You don’t just die because you got too old.
My great grandfather died from old age. He was 91 and completely healthy
But one day he felt tired and took a nap and never woke up.
No sickness, no heart attack or stroke.
He just passed away, probably the best way to go
Could it be cardiac arrest?
Love that I already knew this. Great video.
Loved the video, thumbed it down for the Better Help sponsorship. Why are you partnering with an organization that recommends doctors who would suggest "have you tried just not being gay" to a patient that was dealing with abandonment after their family disowned them?
They also stop paying doctors after x number of words through written communication with a patient to encourage more video calls that they can charge the patient for.
That for sure plus they also just got hit by the FTC for lying about privacy and confidentiality selling users' sensitive health info, including things like info about therapy usage, to advertisers and other third parties. Bad news ALL around.
Oh, so THAT'S why I saw some other comments saying how better help was a bad sponsor, with no further explanation. This seems horrible.
Also, psychologists are not doctors, unless better help only hires psychiatrists? Or the problem lies only on the psychiatrists?
@@tttITA10 They're just a shitty company all around. It honestly wouldn't surprise me to find out they were offering psychiatric services and setting the people up with a church counselor instead.
do you remember recently they announced that the Queen died of old age.. i was saying that that's nonsence, but people said im crazy.. and here we go. Thank you for making this video, guys
Learned a lot from your video, so thanks, but the sponsor in the end? How can you seriously claim an online session would be equal to a personal session. That's ridiculous and unethical.
thank you, this has bothered me so much anytime someone said it!
The causes of death are naturally caused by old age, so "die of old age" is really just a shortened way to say that same thing.
To die of old age is like to die of stop living, so true yet it doesn't mean anything.
Cause of death - stopped living
This is gonna be "you can't die from falling, only from decelerating very very quickly" all over again isn't it?
don't die, that shit kills you.
Thanks
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@@squidwardfromua based
I kept on telling people that we don’t really die from old age, but no one believed me
I've always been confused when people say "they died of old age" or "they dies from natural causes"
I'm always like "okay... so what did they die from?"
This chanel is so AWESOME!! 👍
Nice
Indeed
In german there is the word "altersschwäche" which basically means "oldness weakness" which I think is more fitting than just saying Dying of old age
Whoa whoa whoa, I have heard some awful things about better help, especially towards queer clients and selling data to third parties.
I am all for therapy but this one seems to do a lot more harm than good. I expected your team would do a lot more research into your sponsors than this.
The FTC just announced Better Help has indeed been selling sensitive health data to third parties like advertisers and lying to users about it. I agree, super disappointed in this sponsorship choice!
Huh. I never knew that. But this is an amazing concept, truly, I do like the idea that we die by a cause and not an "old age". I've never believed old age was the reason, but I never had an explanation for it until today. This was the best 2 minutes and 13 seconds I've spent on TH-cam
Can't get a sponsorship from "Established Titles?
I read an article about the oldest woman alive at her time dying at like 118 and scientists said she had two remaining stem cells. The article said that the reason we can't live forever even if we never encounter injury or illness is we eventually run out of stem cells no matter what. If anyone could shed some more light on that notion I'd be fascinated to read it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageing
So sad he got sponsored by Better Help
Why is that sad lol
@@ianmcalindon9385 Because Better Help is a complete scam?
@@ianmcalindon9385 betterhelp is known for being controversial and sharing their clients' private information; if you want for more details abt it, there's a lot of vids in here talking abt why betterhelp shouldn't be trusted
Bruv he wants to make a living his a TH-camr ffs
What’s Linus doing on ya pfp
This is so sad but interesting at the same time .
Y'all know that betterhelp is an absolute sham right?
Actually an awesome video. Well scripted and paced! I loved it
Anybody who has watched an elderly relative die of old age might scoff at this video. Geriatricians will tell you that at some point the cumulative decline in body systems just reaches a point where life becomes unsustainable. And most of the diagnoses they guess at are just that - guesses. I think more than anything they just satisfy the basic human need to understand things.
We discuss this in the video!
@@MinuteEarth Obviously. I was disagreeing with you. I have a good science background, and I regulated physicians for over 40 years. My comments were based on what geriatricians, hem/oncs, cardiologists and others have said many, many times. You can only analyze a cause of death so far, and in the elderly the stated causes are often simply because state law requires something be listed. Many doctors say old age is actually more accurate.
It’s quite obvious dying is a part of life even if it’s not an part of old age
my main character syndrome makes me believe I won't die because im ✨built different✨
It’s complex
2nd
Good job