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[Urist McShire]

And I've modded my dwarves to live until about four hundred, so there's no way any of mine will die of old age before I abandon/retire the fort. Can't believe we got to see one of these deaths.

[Cptn Kaladin Anrizlokum]

Natural death from old age!?  No wonder nobody figured it out!

I thought there was a special message for old age...

[Larix]

If somebody witnesses the death "died of old age" will be notified. But if the dwarf dies out of sight of others and the corpse is found later, it'll just be "found dead" like with so many other causes of death.

[MDFification]

The thing is though that the body is supposedly bisected (half of it being found by the player, the other half already buried).
How does old age bisect you?

[Cptn Kaladin Anrizlokum]

The "Upper body is gone" just means they died, because the upper body is what everything builds off of. It means everything is gone, but it only shows stuff closest to the center of the body. It's why when someone loses an arm they don't show a missing hand as well.

Answer to why they thought bisection.
The half already buried was just the tomb being claimed before burial.

[khearn]

The thing is though that the body is supposedly bisected (half of it being found by the player, the other half already buried).
How does old age bisect you?

The only coffins available were child sized, so they had to cut him in half and use two of them. Happens all the time.

(not really)

   Keith

[Migue5356]

It really says something about the community when the first thought upon seeing a mysterious corpse is that he was killed by either a ghost or a vampire, instead of thinking he died peacefully of old age.

[Mimodo]

The thing is though that the body is supposedly bisected (half of it being found by the player, the other half already buried).
How does old age bisect you?

The same way atom smashing can bisect you (in thoughts of an atom smashed dwarf it states that the upper body is missing

[MobRules]

Natural death from old age!?  No wonder nobody figured it out!

Definitely a first for me 

It really says something about the community when the first thought upon seeing a mysterious corpse is that he was killed by either a ghost or a vampire, instead of thinking he died peacefully of old age.

Vampires, ghosts, toxic blood from forgotten beasts, getting drowsy and accidentally falling into a goblin-slicer, dangerous creatures entering the fort through the water supply -- all these are obvious answers. But a natural death of old age? What's that? 

[gunpowdertea]

Vampires, ghosts, toxic blood from forgotten beasts, getting drowsy and accidentally falling into a goblin-slicer, dangerous creatures entering the fort through the water supply

I would count these as "natural deaths", along with "incinerated, being dumped into magma for demanding slate beds"...

[Illogical_Blox]

Urist McGuy: "Oh no! Urist McOldguy has died"

Urist McSecondguy: "What's the cause of death? HFS? Forgotten beast? GCS? Goblins? Tell me man!"

Urist McGuy: "I... think he died of old age."

Urst McSecondguy: "WHAT! We have an upper age limit?!"

[Iamblichos]

AHA! Thanks for the tip to engrave a memorial to see what it says. It only tells me "died peacefully", but it also reminds me he was 155 years old -- which I believe is at the young end of the range where a dwarf can die of old age, but within the range. Memento mori, indeed.

Only a DF dwarf would die "peacefully of old age" in a way in which their torso explodes...

[Merendel]

Wait... Dwarves can die of old age?  I call shinnanigans.   There has been much science done that proves for a fact that dwarves have almost no chance of surviving to an age where death by old age is even a possibility.  Clearly something fishy about this.

admitedly the science experiments probably had much to do with the short lifespans but ignore that.

[Buttery_Mess]

The thing is though that the body is supposedly bisected (half of it being found by the player, the other half already buried).
How does old age bisect you?

Ask my Dad's original knees.

[draeath]

What output did deathcause give you? If something's broke we should try to fix it