I know we all die, but why does that electicity in us stop working?

Question

when we cut our skin it renews and is healed, so why does this process not continue for ever? why does that electricity stop? if we eat we eat what we need as energy so we our always fueled up so why do we die?

Answer 1

There are so many inter-related things.

Battery may be there and current may be there; but the circuit may be dysfunctional.

Which one to blame?

When cells replicate, it is assumed and taken for granted that they do replicate 'ad infinitum', 'ad nauseum'. It may not be so and the telomeres become dysfunctional.

At this point we may have to bring in the notion of 'fractals'. A fractal is an infinite replication of a pattern, or supposedly so. Look into a looking glass (mirror) and take a photo and study the print. How many reflections, reflections of a reflections and so on can one count. It seems there is a limit to the telomere replication (it is said that it is 52).

And a highly complex organism like any mammal (tiger, elephant or whale) is a perfect and mind-boggling co-ordination of several systems working in tandem. In all this, I noticed the feed-back principle embedded that is self-regulatory. In that heirachy of life, man is the highest evolved form (at least humans think so). There is a finite probability for this structure erected out of a pack of playing cards collapsing. It is the organisational, irreversible breakdown. The software that is programmed (the genomics part) or the battery that powers it or the external environment are each instrumental only, a hastening factor. Nobel laureate Alexis Carrel delved into it in pre-genomics era.

Plus there is that entity 'ego' (the feeling of 'I') that seemingly presides over, orchestrating everything, that is a mystery still to be understood, much less 'resolved'. Can a computer or robot have ego; if so how will overcome the onset of organisational dysfunction of irreversible nature. We know that neither the matter nor energy will not be destroyed. But how do their intricate linkage, transform in a manner that the 'ego' goes missing (it is premature to use the word 'destroyed')?

Answer 2

Good question i think that it is will power whether to survive or not and destiny

Answer 3

Every living thing has an end & so are we.

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Answer 4

Its nothing but the wear and tear everything has got its own depreciation like that our body will be depreciated and it was the death the answer.

There must always an end while there was a begining and always a begining while there was an end so it is the end for the Begining named birth.

Answer 5

When human cells divide (renew) a bit of each end of the choromosomes gets clipped away.  Eventually this erodes into (a) gene(s) that are needed for survival.  

This may be related to the "Hayflick" limit.

Answer 6

Because eventually enough things in our body fail or something critical fails and our body can no longer maintain itself, our heart stops and so does oxygen delivery, ATP generation in cells, and all cellular processes including repair and all life itself (the transition from clinical to biological death).

Aging is just an accumulation of unrepairable damage and dysfunction. It gets to be too much, and death occurs. Or something catastrophic occurs, like a heart attack or the like.

Answer 7

evrthing has an end.so do..the electricity is never lost...so it goes out in nature...and produces lightinging or other forms of electricity...hope tat helped :)

Answer 8

As in any complex machine, there are many pieces that have to work right to keep it operating.

A car that has plenty of fuel will not run at all if the fuel line gets plugged.

Likewise you will die if your arteries plug to the point that they can no longer pass enough blood to the cells that need the oxygen the blood brings.  Just a little while without enough oxygen and the heart fails, the brain suffers even quicker from lack of oxygen.

Then you have infections that swarm into the body and overwhelm the natural healing processes so that they get so far behind that organs fail or other vital systems shut down.

The "electricity" like other body energy dissipation (such as muscle movement) needs constant supply of the fuel from food and the oxygen from air.  If the air stops, or the blood stops pumping then their is no more respiration, no fuel turned into energy, and no generation of electricity.

Once dead, irreversable decomposition starts (because none of the feeding or healing continues) and pretty shortly we have an un-reviveable corpse.