These apples decompose because they are no longer connected with their tree. But why do human beings decompose?

None of the cells that make up “me” is as old as I am. If they renew over the years – why can’t they renew indefinitely? If our cells are not as old as we are: why do they have to be reproduced so ineffectively as we grow older?
Three Very Old Apples
By Detlef.

Why do we develop grey hair, farsightedness, arthrosis etc.? Why do we all die in the end? Nobody could explain senescence to me up to now.

Look at “me” with my grandparents on Christmas-eve 1962: no material present in that Detlef is present in the Detlef writing these lines. I am completely renewed.
Christmas 1962
Presented by Detlef.
Someone told me that our oldest parts are our bones – approximately 15 years old.

I know: cell reproduction has to be inefficient, we have to die to make room for the generation that comes after us (as did my grandparents). But isn’t it conceivable that there could be intelligent organisms that do not age?

And the other question is:  If the “me” today is physically 100% different from the “me” in 1962 – who am I?

Who are you?

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