291 | Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging

2476.126 - 2503.757 Venki Ramakrishnan

And in fact, many of those cells are required to die at appropriate times. If they didn't die, you as an individual would die. So that's one side of the story. The other side is that when you die, most of the cells in your body are still alive. In fact, that's the reason why we can donate our liver and kidney and heart to transplant recipients when we die. And so here you have this paradox.