Question

In the end I could not stand it any longer and went away. I heard later that it took [the elephant] half an hour to die. Burmans were bringing dahs and baskets even before I left, and I was told they had stripped his body almost to the bones by the afternoon. In “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell, how long does it take for the elephant to die?

Answer 1

 African elephants in Kenya's Amboseli National Park lived past the age of 50, with a median age of 56 years for elephants that died of natural causes.