There are two kinds of death: hot and cold.
Hot death is excitability; to be consumed by energy until all connections break and functions cease. Literally burning up. A shrew's heart beats extremely fast until it simply stops - the end of motion. What would happen if it slowed pace, would it live longer?
Cold death is the gradual slowing of processes until basic functions can't be kept up on the level of energy available. It is perhaps like anesthesia taking effect toward the end, a drift into sleep. Most old age death is likely a cold death.
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