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Quote by: Derach  Animals would age too, I assume?
Would our bodies still be susceptible to infection and parasites?
If so, after about 70 or 80 yrs, humans would be a global population of suffering, incontinent, impotent, disease ridden, living corpses. Not an envious prospect. What a kick in the nuts it would be to people suffering teminal illness who have come to accept and in some cases welcome their death (definitely happens sometimes).
Assuming animals continue to age and suffer, the landscape would soon probably resemble a war zone .. with 'carcasses' (albeit 'living' ones) of all beasts eventually lying everywhere rotting away, but alive. What a way to spend the next 5.5 billion yrs (until the sun expires). |
Our bodies may be susceptable to parasites as they coexist with us, but I'm not sure. But because of a lack of death, things would not rot, so there would be no decay. It also wouldn't be waiting until the sun expires, because we would just be frozen until some source of heat came along to defrost us and give us mobility again (I'm thinking of the movie, A.I.).
I hope we never lose the choice to die.