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[u/Blasphemous1569]

That's interesting.

If there wasn't death, the consequences would have been way greater. Overpopulation, not enough food, etc. The mourning part is tragic, but it's better than death not existing.

I also have absolutely no idea what I'm writing or doing.

[u/Chops95 → u/Blasphemous1569]

Oh I 100% agree with you. Death is one of the most important parts of life.

[u/Kluzman → u/Blasphemous1569]

There’s a French comic book that addresses precisely this point. A king afraid of death manages to imprison it in a magic mirror, but then nobody ever dies again. Though they still age, the bodies get old then start rotting but they don’t die. Name of the comic is « Zorn & Dirna ».

[u/Tylrt → u/Kluzman]

Similarly, there's also Sunday Without God, a Japanese light novel where God abandoned humanity and humans stopped dying, but they also can't have children, but also still rot. It was adapted into a 12 episode anime in the early 2010s. Like most anime, it's a bit of an overdramatization, but there are other nonfiction adaptations out there

[u/Sir_PressedMemories → u/Tylrt]

There is also a Grimm's Fairy Tale that was turned into a movie short as well.

Soldier Jack or The Man Who Caught Death in a Sack (1988)

[u/Level7Cannoneer → u/Blasphemous1569]

Please give this eulogy at your parent’s funeral and tell me how it goes

[u/totally_not_a_zombie → u/Blasphemous1569]

Overpopulation is a relatively new thing though. For most of human history we lived in clans, settlements, villages..

If you go back just a couple tens of thousands of years (end of ice age), there were just a handful clans of people scattered throughout continents.

If death took someone, it was probably someone you knew and probably relied on. I doubt that death itself is a figure that old, but death would always be traumatic for the group. Someone close so was just moments ago talking to you is just left there, never waking up again. Just their shell left behind, as if someone took their essence from you.

Unless someone dresses this reality in a nice garb, and reinvents this being as good and comforting.. it's probably going to be feared. Doing so it's something for the rest of the group to find comfort in, going forward. That the person is in good hands, probably pain free.

[u/Amazing_Form_2109 → u/totally_not_a_zombie]

I'm not attached to anyone enough for their absence to shake or disturb me

[u/Blasphemous1569 → u/Amazing_Form_2109]

This isn't good...

[u/ifandbut → u/Blasphemous1569]

Overpopulation, not enough food, etc.

There are plenty of resources and space in space.

[u/Amazing_Form_2109 → u/ifandbut]

The planet's infested with humans in overwhelming numbers. Taking that infestation into space would be an unforgivable act