What Exactly Does It Mean to Die of 'Old Age'?

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What Exactly Does It Mean to Die of 'Old Age'?
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Queen Elizabeth's newly released death certificate contains just two curious words under her cause of death – old age.

. It was a leading cause of death in the 19th century, alongside the vague description of"found dead".moved from clerical to secular, with the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1836 ., written by French statistician and demographer Jacques Bertillon.that dying of anything other than what was on the official list was"illegal, for example, to die of old age".

What this suggests is that providing a precise cause of death is important because it's a valuable tool for tracking mortality trends at different levels of the population.

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