Did Napoleon die from age

Answer 1

No, Napoleon Bonaparte died of stomach cancer.

Napoleon showed the first signs of illness at the end of 1817; he seems to have had an ulcer or a cancer of the stomach. The Irish doctor Barry O'Meara, having asked in vain for a change in the conditions under which Napoleon lived, was dismissed; so also was his successor John Stokoe, who was likewise thought to be well-disposed toward Napoleon. The undistinguished Corsican Doctor Who took their place, Francesco Antommarchi, prescribed a treatment that could do nothing to cure his patient. It is uncertain, however, whether Napoleon's disease was curable at all, even by 21st-century methods. There has been continuing controversy about the cause of his death, but the evidence used by some to support the theory that Napoleon was poisoned is not considered conclusive by many scholars.

From the beginning of 1821, the illness became rapidly worse. From March, Napoleon was confined to bed. In April he dictated his last will: I wish my ashes to rest on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of that French people which I have loved so much.…I die before my time, killed by the English oligarchy and its hired assassins.

On May 5 he spoke a few coherent phrases: "My God…the French nation…my son…head of the army." He died at 5:49 on that day, not yet 52 years old. His body was dressed in his favourite uniform, that of the Chasseurs de la Garde, covered by the gray overcoat that he had worn at Marengo. The funeral was conducted simply, but with due propriety, in the Rupert Valley, where Napoleon had sometimes walked, beside a stream in which two willows were reflected. The stone covering his tomb bore no name, only the words "Ci-Gît" ("Here Lies").

Source: http://www.biography.com/articles/Napoleon-I-9420291?part=15

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