How old are you before it can be said you died of old age?

I'd say 50 onwards... why?

75 and up

Id say about the time you can legally retire.

I tend to agree with Miss Pirate. Course it is kinda hard to say. With medical & other technologies, you just never know. Yet in my family the men are betwen 70-75. The women? 85+.

What kills me is, I see some people into their 70s/80s & up still going like mad! Like Hugh Hefner (81), Larry King (73). I was floored the other night I saw a little thing on Celebration of the Archive of American Television & Art Linkletter was on it! I hadn't seen him on tv in years!

Pics of guests if you want to walk down memory lane a little...

I think the term "died of natural causes" is a bit easier to use since it doesn't need to define what old age is.

Hmm good question, I think old age is not determined by a persons age, but more by the age of the person compared to your own age. To an eight year old, someone who is 35 years old is someone of "old age", and someone who is 30 years old thinks that someone who is 65 is of "old age". That's just my two cents

Right exactly.

It just means that the person died because their body quit, it's not really an age limit, per se.

It is alway 30 years away from your present age

so i will tell this to my grandad who is 90! he will be happy, NOT!

I guess if i die a month from now it will be of old age cause thats when i turn 50, I don,t know if i can wrap my brain round that one,most of the time i don,t feel a day over 25 and the only time i feel older is when i,m hurtin!

hey, you are as old a you feel. you know, a 90 year old women climbed mount everest or something like that.

always add 40years from my current age and then that's the age that i'm happy to die.

I think any age over 70, kuz all 4 of my grandparents are over 70, and they are as happy and healthy as ever . But I think that anyone who is older and had a good life with nothing much to do dies, that they lived to be old and stuff. As long as you lived a good life and have nothing to make up or feel sorry about anything, I think that is an O.K. time to die. But I wouldnt really know, Im not "old", Im still in Jr. High.

There is no such thing.
And thanks for mentioning it. It's one of those cretinisms that have been bugging me (literally) since childhood.
I mean, if a child can realise that you die because of failure of this or that organ, it would not be unreasonable to expect adults to know better - or would it? ;)

And what would be an "unnatural" cause of death?
I mean, that term is already taken - by criminology. It means homicide, sometimes suicide.

I don't believe in "dying of old age". No matter how old you are, there is some organ that quits. When my mother told me years ago that my uncle died of old age, I asked her what happened. SHe said his heart failed. That is not death by old age, that is a heart attack.

To say "died of old age" makes it sound like being old is a disease or something. There is nothing wrong with not having died.

50 isn't old. I would say 75-80 and up.

Ya but if a healthy organ fails, than its because of old age.

how do we know that being "old" is classified by a certain age?
how do we know we aren't mean't to live forever?
i dunno, i guess i'll say 55, no more, no less.
xo

Healthy organs don't fail.

I almost gagged when someone said 50 was 'old age.'

And I agree with Lord U that you can't die of old age - there is always a specific medical reason.

"Old age" isn't cause of death anymore. When a specific cause of death is not known( i.e. they died in the hospital from a heart attack) then an autopsy is done to confirm the cause. There was a time when people would say that a person died of old age, but that is not an actual cause just uninformed people making speculations...