Why Death is Necessary?

[vikingsiddhu]

Forget about the "future" technology that will give you infinite life or anything like that.

I think that Death is absolutely necessary to live, not because of overgrowth or anything like that.

People say that they only live once, so live it to the max(or fun)
I say, thought, you live only once, so that your actions may help to bring a better tommorow.

If you were going to live forever, why go through the trouble of studing, etc.
You have can fun all you want. In that case, humanity would collapse, or technology would fail to advance.

We live to die to leave legacies.

What's your opinion? (Try to keep religion away from this topic please)

[RZZZA]

I think death is equevelant to and symbolic of "blackness", the dark side of God and nature...there is good, neutral and bad so I think death is like the epitome of cruelty, suffering, pain, sickness, pesitlence, wrath...etc...Its natural and its part of a cycle.

*sniff*...that poor little mouse...

[Spiff]

Death is necesary A to prevent over population and running out of resources, and B to give a reason for reproduction - which is necessary for evolution.

I think it would be better if human life expectancy was more like 300 though.. that would be interesting

[over-man]

Death is necesary A to prevent over population and running out of resources, and B to give a reason for reproduction

Isn't that contradicting?

[Spiff]

Isn't that contradicting?

not if you edit back in the part you removed. Evolution is the key, without which species would stagnate and be unable to adapt to changes in circumstances

[over-man]

not if you edit back in the part you removed. Evolution is the key, without which species would stagnate and be unable to adapt to changes in circumstances

It may be necessary for animals, but we're talking about humans, and, I believe, death of old age. Just because you can live forever doesn't mean that you will.

[over-man]

Ever seen Zardoz?

[vikingsiddhu]

But the point of the thread is why must death exist? (ignoring overcrowding, and religon)

[RZZZA]

Ok, youre asking a rhetorical question....so it cant be answered, every person has their own take on it just like every person has their own take on death, and God.

[Richard the Lionheart]

Living forever would be boring and too difficult. I figure your body would eventually collapse under all the stresses of this world. Plus, we wouldn't want all the bad people in this world to live forever now would we?

[QuackyNC]

Death is nesscary to promote change, and reproduction. If there was no death, there would be limited reproduction, and without reproduction and new generations of people, civilazation would be become stagnant.

I wouldnt want to live forever anyway, eternal life on earth would be worse than hell in my opinion.

[Sétanta]

we are no Cylons and have no ressurection ship
besides who would want to live forever

[rez]

without death you cannot truly live. In the twilight years of our lives we will learn to appreciate the world for every beautiful sunset, for every wonderful sacrifice made by humans and for sharing a love that in the grand scheme of things was a fleeting moment of perfection. Without death we would never have the persepective on life which lets us really see and feel whats going on. Without death we would just take it all for granted.

Wow that was really flowery... i need to go and... uh... chop some wood! drink some whiskey and smoke some cigars! whos up for poker?

[Spiff]

Its all fine and well saying that but no one as of yet has lived forever, so i dont think we really know what it would be like. Personaly i think seeing the evolution of society would be very interesting, and if we're talking about living forever so long as youre no killed then all the better

[rez]

take the fact that youngish people tend to take life for granted and are thus far more reckless and unappreciative becasue they do not seriously consider the concequences of death.

and even then thats a dumbed down version of immortality

[Handsome Huss]

"Why do we die?"
Seems like a rather silly question to me. A better question would be, "why do we live?"

There once was a Blackfoot Indian chief, and his last words on his deathbead sum it up.
"A little while and I will be gone from you - whither I cannot tell... From nowhere we come, into nowhere we go. What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."

'From nowhere we come, into nowhere we go'... Death is just us returning to our state of normality, which is a state of nothingness (or state of eternal bliss, whichever you want).
I guess I'd compare life to throwing a beachball into the air. It starts on the ground, is thrown up, blown in many directions with no clear path...but what goes up must come down.

[rez]

just like a spherical world wasnt there to discover not so long ago?

[Cobra]

Organic material deteriorates.

[Habelo]

Ore mayby you shouldnt think about it to much and just take life as it comes, and well after youve reached a certain age your brain becomes kinda, tired of all the pain it has taken over the years so i think that death is both a release and a ending.

[LordSaradain]

death is necessary because otherwise the world would get too crowded...