Death.

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EctoBiologist

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Debate wether Death is neccesary or not.

In my opinion I think it's neccesary.

It's the only line that can prove the survival of the fittest after all and thus it helps the earth to not overpopulate.

plus dead animals, people or plants corpse's can be used as nutrients for new plants thus continuing the cycle of life.
 
Death is a tricky concept for me.

I don't really like the uncertainty of it, the fact that you lose people closest to you, etc., and I wish that there was a way to avoid it if I'm completely honest, or at least extend it enough. Death scares me, simple enough, and although I believe there's an afterlife, it still scares me all the same. Heck, 100 years is not nearly enough time to do everything you want to, especially considering that you spend the first 20 years of your life trying to get educated properly for jobs that will steal away about 50 years of your life, leaving you into old age where you won't have done half the things that you wanted to do before the cold embrace of death eventually takes you. And even then, was all of your work really worth it? You'll end up leaving not even a small blip on the face of the earth after you die, which bothers me too. And what about the future? I wouldn't be able to see what happens in the future, which I would most like to see.

On the other hand, however, if everyone survived, and there was no death, we would eventually pile up this planet, ultimately sending people into space, where they would eternally suffocate.
 
Kingbowser99 said:
On the other hand, however, if everyone survived, and there was no death, we would eventually pile up this planet, ultimately sending people into space, where they would eternally suffocate.
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Actually, there is one story from one of those religions where everything was immortal and propagation was impossible. Then there were a few rocks, and a few humans. The humans wanted a child, and asked God for help. God wanted to help them, in exchange for their immortality. The rocks however, didn't want it, so therefore they are still immortal and don't propagate. The humans, and all other organisms actually, now are mortal and able to propagate.

Now say that we were immortal, wouldn't it make sense if propagation is not possible?
 
Yes.

It is necessary. Unless everything living people suddenly becomes sterile, death is always necessary. But even so...

Immortality can sometimes be a worse fate than death.

Most notable because of pain. Pain would never leave your body. You would feel pain for your entire life. Which would be infinite. A man bleeding out will eventually die, and the pain would presumably go away. A immortal man would have to deal with the excuriating pain until a solution arises. Anything that would normally kill you, wouldn't. War would be incredibly worse, as well as natural disasters.

You fell off a mountain? Well every single bone in your body is broken, you can feel a incredible pain everywhere, and you can't move or do anything about it. Immortality sucks, huh?

Head chopped off? Standing in front of a grenade when it went off? Lynched? Crushed by a boulder? Set on fire? Drowning? Starving?

Too bad, you are immortal, and you must deal with it.

Life would be infinite, but pain would also be infinite.

I think I made my point, sorry if that was way too morbid for you guys, but that is what I believe is the truth.
 
Heh. Death.

I've never experienced losing someone this way.(yet)

My view on it is rather...twisted.

I don't wanna die nor live forever. I imagine it'd be similar to sleeping in unconsciousness.

Spirits... That happens under special conditions I feel.
 
I don't why, but Death is always on mind, and to be honest it scares me, but it's going to happen so I live with it. Although as a pessimist I do think every day is my last.

However, I like joking about death, in fact it's one of my favourite subjects to joke about and the one I feel most comfortable about joking about
 
The only death I care about, is the death of people who were close to me, which in this case means, the death of my father, 2 years ago.
Thinking about it still makes me angry, in present days.

I've never cared about the death of any of my grandparents, as I never met them in person.
 
death is strange, since apparently Ive heard dying from old age is because of how the oxygen you breathe slowly burns up your brain or something

i may be afraid of dying but I'm not afraid of being dead since it'd be the same as being unborn