In case Birth & Death stops, then what????

[Kuldeep]

There have been many threads on various forums about afterlife, soul, death, reincarnation, God, heaven, evolution, creation...and what not !! As I could see, nothing decisive conclusion could be drawn in any of those topic, except leg pulling of each other in some way or the other.

Now for a moment, imagine due to some reason reproduction seizes in all the living beings, meaning no births from now on and also no Deaths would take place as well. How our world community society would start getting affected as result of this unique happening.

I am aware that would never happen practically, but just a thought came to my mind !!! If we all are to live eternally here on this earth, then how we should plan our infinite future to derive maximum happiness from day to day life. One thing is certain, there would be no fear of death in our minds.

Let me hear how others react to such an astonishing happening, if at all it turns to be a reality.

[stardust]

no birth and no death?
mhm, amusing. And that scenario is certainly not impossible, we all would perish one day. and then there would be beings made up of carbon and silicon, hopefully?

[SoylentGreen]

Two things to ask:
One, can I take a flying leap of a tall building and live?
And secondly will all the stuff that goes into making babies still be available.
Please answer one before two as I hate wasting my time.

[Anmon]

good, if I can take back fifteen years as well.

[gela]

If there was no natural death, we would all eventualy kill each other..

Or mabe with age will come wisdom.. and society would stop being so stupid..

I can't decide which would happen.

[grandpa]

If there was no natural death, we would all eventualy
kill each other..
Or mabe with age will come wisdom..

Wisdom is not due to age.

Grandpa h.

[Anmon]

Wisdom is not due to age.
Grandpa h.

agreed, experience is what counts the most.

[Chaossaber314]

The answer to the Op is quite simple.

Look at the effects of overpopulation, look at predictions for the future, and then jump those ahead by many many decades.

The no births element does present an interesting question though.

[Maryjane]

I'd save a lot of money on insurance!

[Technosoul]

There have been many threads on various forums about afterlife, soul, death, reincarnation, God, heaven, evolution, creation...and what not !! As I could see, nothing decisive conclusion could be drawn in any of those topic, except leg pulling of each other in some way or the other.

Now for a moment, imagine due to some reason reproduction seizes in all the living beings, meaning no births from now on and also no Deaths would take place as well. How our world community society would start getting affected as result of this unique happening.

I am aware that would never happen practically, but just a thought came to my mind !!! If we all are to live eternally here on this earth, then how we should plan our infinite future to derive maximum happiness from day to day life. One thing is certain, there would be no fear of death in our minds.

Let me hear how others react to such an astonishing happening, if at all it turns to be a reality.

That is an interesting thing to speculate on.

For one thing murder would not be possible - right? So war would be pointless. Capital punishment would be impossible. As well as marrage. If disease cannot kill us then that would pretty much solve the so-called expense of health care.

Money might become obsolete because the main motivation for working hard at a job we don't like is because we must eat food. In your world eating would not be done anymore because to eat you must kill something, which is impossible, and starving to death likewise impossible.

And how could you clear land to build new houses and or highways if you cannot kill and distroy trees and so forth. So we would just live in nature with only what leftover man-made stuff that remained form our past exsistance in this life & death situation.

Our cells would not die and regenerate and so children would remain as children and adults would continue as-is also. Perhaps sex would still be possible but it would serve no practical purpose. No fears of having unwanted children. (no more abortion topic to debate).

The main concern would to dealing with possible boredom after the first few hundred years of the same-o same-o. No way out and not exit policy. We would ether have to find ways to enjoy life or suffer eternal depression that cannot be solved by suicide.

Cat napping might become very popular, but not clock watching. We might distroy all clocks because who would care about time anymore?

No more candy, beer, cigarettes, drugs, and so forth, all of which are products of things being killed.

No more need for tolets, no need to inhale air and so parts of our body would become obsolete. Things living underwater could venture onto land and things on land could walk around under water... no problem if you cannot die from suffication.

And so much of what we call living and growth would be no more, not a part of life as it is now. We would stop living life as we now live it.

[Thanatos]

Life would be boring. Can't screw up, can't get it right because it already is right...

We'd sit around and argue about politics all day because there would be nothing better to do.

[gela]

Wisdom is not due to age.

Grandpa h.

Oh believe me, I agree.

But increasing the length of life increases the chance of wisdom..

Mabe not.. we will probably all just kill each other