If there was no death, would there be life?

Question:stupid question to ask but my friend and i debated about this for the whole day and i just wanted to know what you guys thought. if there was no death, would there be life? or you could answer if you stoped death, would you have stopped life too?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: stupid question to ask but my friend and i debated about this for the whole day and i just wanted to know what you guys thought. if there was no death, would there be life? or you could answer if you stoped death, would you have stopped life too?

without death there couldn't be life because life is born from the soul of a dead thing. But then again thats just my oipion.
But that is a really good question to ask it really does make you think.

The land would be overwhelmed with people eating each other alive.

if there was no death there would still be life and if you stopped death there would still be life.as far as the universe goes, planets and nature that is.
People, animals have a start and a finnish so its an impossible question , but a very good one,cheers

Essentially without death there would be no life. Wouldn't you just never do anything to contribute to society because you know it'll never be taken away from you. If you know that one day you'll die then you'll at least try to do something worthwhile during your time on earth

The wages of sin is death, yes there are and will be on earth life without death.

The prospect of a future death is a quality of life. It would be ABSURD to think just because we extend a person's life into immortality, that they are the opposite of alive. They LIVE longer than anyone!

It is a quality, but not an essence. It is like saying, "everyone alive sees in colors, if they do at all see"-- therefore someone who does not see in colors, who is not blind, also is not alive.

In other words, it is a stupid kind of analytic truth that we all die, but it is stupid because it is either inductive, or not logically necessary. Would life be different without death? Yes. But it would still be the same for all the reasons that anything is the same through time and change. Otherwise identity is too strict.

nice question!!
I think that everything has it's opposite, there is right and left, up and down,happiness and sadness so I guess not

Of course there would be. It's just like asking "if there is no black, would there be no white also?" If black is the absence of color, and white is the quintessence of color, then the absence of the absence of color would cause the universe to be entirely white. Life would abound everywhere without death, but that's where you get into the definition of life and death and I don't have time to talk about it.

No life can not exist without death. Think of what you eat.

Dualism :
life --- death
male --- female
day ---- night
light ---- dark
good --- bad
....................

yin ----- yang

You eliminate one you will eliminate the other.

Would there be life if there was no death?

There is a notion that life has no meaning, as such there would be no meaning for death as existence is a mere illusion much like reality. Valid as it might be, this notion of life adds little to out discussion and thus it is excluded for the rest of this answer.

Continuing to answer the question posed, we should look closer at what life is.

1) For some, life is announced by birth, defined by deeds and punctuated by its termination;
2) There are also those who believes that life transcends beyond the marks of birth and death.
3) It might be the case that origin of life must be generated by death of another in a one to one exchange -- as in reincarnations.

Going back to the question, we would see that life is either limited or at lease transformed by death. In the first case, the extension would water down the value of life's deeds. In the second case, life would not be able to complete its final calling. In the last case, since there are already lives, the generation of more new lives needed not be continued.

Albeit nature of life would have changed somewhat without death, there would still be life.