Metastability of life

The physical idea of the natural origin of diseases and deaths has been pre sented. The fundamental microscopical reason is the destruction of any meta stable state by thermal activation of a nucleus of a irreversible change. O n the basis of this idea the quantitative theory of age dependence of the d eath probability has been constructed. The obtained simple Death Laws are v ery accurately fulfilled almost for all known diseases. (C) 2000 MAIK "Nauk a/Interperiodica".