about death. A controversial one I guess. It came to me after a conversation I had with a friend about cancer.
Say we found a cure for cancer, fanastic right? Everyone that would have died from cancer would still be alive. And what about if we found a way to prevent ALL unnecessary deaths from occuring? Everyone that would have died from road accidents, murders, and sickness would still be alive. We would just die from old age and...that's it. We and all our friends and relatives would all live their full lives. Sounds wonderful.
But do you think that pretty soon the earth would become literally over-crowded if we were to prevent all deaths but old age? I think it definetely would. So are all these unnecessary deaths really unnecessary? Saying that, should we stop trying to find a cure for cancer?
But of course intial reaction to that question would be that of the person asking it is heartless presenting a 'thining the crowd' idea.
What do you think?

There are already way more births than deaths.

Check this out.

All deaths are necessary in all honesty. Its just some deaths, like through cancer, are a pretty horrible way to die.

Alison100 wrote:

No we should not stop looking for a cure from cancer, I'm assuming you've never been effected by cancer or that no one you know has either? I find your opinions pretty sick!

You have blatently misunderstood. Re-read and try again.

No1Toker wrote:

A large part of the inhabited parts of Earth are already overcrowded

Yes.

Also death seems to have evolved with organisms from the most basic protein strands to full fledged organisms such as ourselves. A gene vehicle (such as ourselves) is liable to become sick, injured or consumed by another organism, and the odds of this increase with time. An efficient biological process therefore is to keep us carriers alive long enough to reproduce, but not long enough that when our bodies become defective and free-radicals build up we're still capable of passing on sub-standard genetic information. Therefore death is a good way of ensuing healtyh genes are passed on. It just so happens human's developed this thing called consciousness and therefore can understand and fear our future experiation, unlike other animals who live only in the present. We're lucky that being a large mammal our lifespan on average is pretty good and measured in decades rather than months, weeks or even days.

If death is genetic, then one day we may be able to alter our DNA in such a way as to stop the ageing process at a desired time, or perhaps possess nanontechnology sufficient enough to repair and halt it. That said it would probably be a luxury afforded only by the very rich (if the concept of monetary transfer still exists at the time), and humanity would have to have escaped the cradle of the Earth in order to handle such an event.