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It is a nice thing to do. But even if she didn't, nature would have found some use for the components in her body.



The problem with this is that the benefit to humanity from analyzing the effects of extreme old age on the human body and investigating the questions of extreme old-age heritability that super-centenarians raise is much greater than the benefit from the decomposition of an old lady's biomass.




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