• Question: Why can't we live forever ?

    Asked by Ronaldo and Azz to Carolyn, Peter, Richard, Sara, Siana on 13 Nov 2015. This question was also asked by delldellxx1544, emily_mxy, 567aged23.
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      Richard Unwin answered on 13 Nov 2015:

      Almost nothing lives forever – eventually we use parts of our body so much that something begins to wear our, despite our remarkable capacity to repair ourselves (we already keep manage to keep a body containing around 30,000,000,000,000 cells going for 80 years, which is some feat). I said almost nothing lives forever – apparently the sea anemone can live for ever, by constantly re-growing and replacing body parts. It only dies if its poisoned or eaten.

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