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Comment author: CellBioGuy 25 August 2015 10:50:50PM *  0 points [-]

many people on this site are young and we've not experienced the slow degradation so we implicitly fail to frame questions taking into account that others will often view life as a slow degradation with death as a release when the degradation gets too bad, not as an enemy to be defeated.

I've seen the phrase 'ripening' used, supporting this hypotheses.

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