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Gen'Dai are a good candidate because their whole biology is based on regeneration. Aging is, after all, the gradual damage and destruction of your cells, usually by harmful Free Radicals. If one could replace damaged and destroyed cells within minutes or hours of their destruction (as Durge seems to be able to), then he could live as long as he had at least some body mass left. Alternatively, it might be that his regeneration requires the survival of a specific cell type, perhaps located in one organ or several nodes (I'm thinking like how plants have some sort of stem cell at key points, to allow for easy differentiation into root, stem, flower, etc.), and so at least some of those stem cells must survive.
All that to say, as long as a Gen'Dai still had at least some [appropriate] cells, he could regenerate fully, regardless of his age.
Has anyone else here read the Marvel Civil War? I've been reading through it, and there's a story where Wolverine hunts down Nitro (who explodes; it was his explosion that killed a bunch of kids, which made the public want to Register superheroes). Nitro explodes with Wolverine next to him, and all the soft flesh was burned away, leaving only an adamantium-coated skeleton. But Wolverine survived, being able to fully regenerate from the bone marrow under the Adamantium. _________________ It was the year of fire… the year of destruction… the year we took back what was ours.
It was the year of rebirth… the year of great sadness… the year of pain… and the year of joy.
It was a new age. It was the end of history. It was the year everything changed.
The year is 2261.
The place: Babylon 5.
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