A human body can live a long time with water and without food.
At 30,000 feet, the body is living in a condition it was not born to withstand.
When your body lived to its maximum, it used itself more efficiently.
"To minister to the souls and the bodies of those who live there."
The body can not live for more than 7 minutes without blood circulating.
His body lived, but his mind was almost entirely gone.
A body can live without an arm or a leg, not without the heart.
Not kill, no, but something far worse, for when the mind, the self is gone, what can it matter that the body still lives?
Even if his body still lived, it might only continue to do so until night fell.
So why doesn't the body protect itself better from free radicals and live longer?