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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Angcuru" data-source="post: 953280" data-attributes="member: 10948">A bit of realism here:People go through what we call 'aging', when it is actually the slow and steady process of the breakdown/decay of our physical bodies due to natural imperfections in the genetic code.  The body decays steadily until it is no longer capable of performing of the the prime functions neccessary to support life.  Breathing, beating of the heart, brain activity, etc.  Death by old age has absolutely nothing to do with someone's soul in any way whatsoever.  People die when, and only when their bodies fail to sustain life functions.  Just like machines, our bodies are steadily and constantly worn down and rebuilt.  I'm not exatly sure about the numbers, but every six months or so our bodies have been completely replaced by new cells.  This process is straining on the body, and as time goes on the rebuilding process becomes weaker and weaker.  Then the body fails to replace sufficient cells in vital organs, causing what we call 'dying of natural causes'.  Like I said earlier, this is due to natural imperfections in the genetic code.  If we look at starfish and their ability to regenerate lost limbs, or that of lizards to regrow dropped tails, we can see an eventual key to immortality.  Locked away in these little fellers is genetic coding that provides them with their regenerative properties.  Geneticists can potentially identify these genes and apply sufficient study and research to discover methods to slow down, even stop this 'genetic decay' of ours.  Even a slowing of genetic decay can sufficiently prolong life, pushing back the weaknesses and crippling qualities that come naturally around the late 60's early 70's  age group to perhaps the 90's, even in the 100's.  While may even be able to achieve perfect recycling of the human body, which is for lack of a better word: immortality.OK. Now for the game-related portion:  Druids and monks achieve a state where their bodies do not decay, and therefore their bodies will not fail them, causing them to die.  Because of this, they IMO become immortal.  But they can still go down with a lucky damage roll or failed save.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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