On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 08:59:43AM -0400, John Klein wrote: > A surprisingly large amount of human culture is based around death and the > preparations for it. Who knows what it would be replaced by if death > weren't an issue, or if it happened less frequently? > > (For one thing, we'd all have children more slowly. Either of our own > accord, or by law. And if we were immortal we'd have to stop having them > entirely at some point. Which is /another/ section of our culture that > would vanish.) Or start fighting lots of duels and engaging in other behaviour that will give us some population churn. That's assuming the "no deaths by natural causes, but still by unnatural" sort of immortality. The "no deaths whatsoever" kind is, indeed, highly problematic for any species that can reproduce. Erik -- Well I'm walking through the sand In the desert of my mind And I don't remember what it was That I came here to find -- Sister Machine Gun "Alone"