Imagine If Noone Could Die

How would life be like, if there was no such thing as death? If noone died, no matter what happened. Wouldn’t that be great? Well, we’ll see…

Noone can die.

But people can still get hurt. And they never recover from some diseases. So they collect all possible diseases and injuries during their eternal lifes. Sooner or later they all loose their senses and just live because there’s no way to die. Totally malformed beings as the result of car crashes, brawls, bacteria etc. Unable to walk, speak or see. Human trash labeled as living.

Only young, careful or lucky people look like normal human beings. Sounds horrible, right?

Alright, let’s make some additional assumptions:

Noone can get hurt. And your body doesn’t get older. I mean, you grow until you are an adult but from that point on your body doesn’t change. So you can’t become sick and your senses remain intact forever. (We’ll ignore the fact that the body has to change to form memories and interact with the world…)

There are some funny results of those assumptions. People have no need to eat or drink. They don’t have to use stairs if they don’t mind the pain. There’s no need to breathe. You can finally get real drunk without having to fear the negative consequences alcohol usually has on your body. You can do pretty much anything without having to fear any negative consequences, right?

False. You can still get imprisoned, tortured or buried. You don’t die, but you know what pain is. If you don’t care for your future your life can be like hell. Eternal pain.

But maybe you’re lucky and don’t need to suffer a lot. There’s still one major problem:

Earth happens to be pretty crowded if noone wants to make room for future generations. People are not smart enough to reduce the birth rates to 0. So population is growing. And growing. And growing. You can shoot some people into space but there’s not enough fuel for it to be effective.

Sooner or later some people need to be placed on top of others because of the limited space. You can’t move no more. If you’re unlucky you’re not on top and have to carry other people 24/7.

If you’re not mad already, you’re probably sick of this eternal life. Maybe you even contemplate suicide. No, I was just kidding around, you don’t know what suicide is.

After a while, there are so many people that you could try to jump out of earth’s gravitation field from the top of them. But be careful not to land on a sun.