2007-02-07 07:58:54 · 13 answers · asked by martin g 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
life wud then be a drag...a limited time period makes life unique and special.
plus there wont be space enuf for everyone being born.
2007-02-07 18:21:13 · answer #1 · answered by samyshine 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If we lived forever then all the hospitals and funeral directors and churches would go out of business. That would have a devastating effect on the economy. So its good that we die.
Also without death you would have to keep paying taxes forever. This would be a terrible prospect. Eternity of handing over your hard earned cash to the government. Thankfully death exists to rectify the situation which is definitely cheaper than living forever.
I hope there are no taxes in heaven but in hell there may well be so be careful
2007-02-08 22:58:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The main reason for that why we die is also the reason why we live: oxygen. Breathing makes us older with every day. If there was any other way to provide oxygen into our blood avoiding lungs, we'd live probably 10-20 years longer, but not only that.
While we breath the lungs absorb oxygen from the air. That causes our cells to work really hard to 1)transport the oxygen to blood and 2)produce heat and energy from burning the oxygen in our muscles. That causes the cells to die with every day. The will reproduce but not that won't be as strong as the previous one. After 70-80 years it's time to end this process, body can't handle it anymore.
2007-02-07 18:44:02 · answer #3 · answered by lucasta24 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is really a medical question. Basically thought, the body just breaks down like all things.
It would also be a really big problem, there are 9 billion people in the world. This is way too many for the earth to support already. So if no one died then we could not allow any children at all.
Also if no one / nothing died we could not evolve.
2007-02-07 18:20:41 · answer #4 · answered by Freethinking Liberal 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Haven't you heard? Even the immortals envy us, because we don't live forever, everything's more precious that way.
But if you're looking for a religious answer, ask Adam and Eve.
2007-02-08 05:11:12 · answer #5 · answered by cassaliciousinsanity 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say its eternal survival after death, is not only in no way guaranteed, but this assumption in the first place will not do for us what we always tried to make it do. Is a riddle solved by the fact that I survive for ever? Is this eternal life not as enigmatic as our present one? The solution of the riddle of life in space and time lies outside space and time.
2007-02-08 02:02:38 · answer #6 · answered by Recumbentman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We do, it's just that we don't experience it due to the "fall" of man into individuality. Mankind has been there eversince it was created and it will always be there.
Mankind was one "soul" before, i.e. many individual physical bodies all using one mind, thus that one mind (Adam Harishon or first man) was immortal since if one body dies here, he still experiences life in other bodies; if one body is asleep in Canada, He still experiences life in another body in China and so on. He experienced immortality! and yet Man felt lonely (and God saw that it was not good for man to be alone...Book of Genesis)
Thus, Man decided to enter individuality so that he could feel his own body and not all bodies in order to feel surrounded with other beings or companions (in reality, it's only him but he has lost the experience of life through all bodies but his own).
In this way, Man has feared death thinking that this is the end of his life experience! Individuality has begotten rivalry, competition and "evil" on earth! Each physical body has its own experience.
This is the hidden meaning of the "fall of man" in the garden Eden which is truly Man leaving the state of Unity into Individuality in order to feel companionship but for a price: Individual mortality!
This is the Mystery behind sefer b'reshit (book of genesis in hebrew).
Shalom.
2007-02-08 01:43:23 · answer #7 · answered by Makaveli007 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our bodies are good at renewing cells, blood, the skin, digesting food, etc. but there are things that they are not so good at, eg: combating cancer or strengthening your heart or another organ when it gets frail.
We are not invincible, and our bodies are not omnipotent. If they were, we could live forever.
2007-02-08 02:08:31 · answer #8 · answered by profound insight 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would not value life if you could live forever.
2007-02-08 00:44:36 · answer #9 · answered by abluebobcat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nobody would breed, because there would be no reason to.
Could you live without wild, late night sex with your partner?
2007-02-08 00:55:47 · answer #10 · answered by Fidel Castro 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋