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I was being slightly facetious ;). However it is something I've thought about before, what happens to societies when no one dies, whether we'll keep the same customs and societal opinions forever, etc.


You might enjoy Kurt Vonnegut’s short story 2BR02B. The Wikipedia article[1] has links to several different places you can read or listen to it for free. (Though I’m a bit confused as to how his work is already in the public domain since he only died relatively recently?)

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_B_R_0_2_B


It may have been published without a copyright notice? As it was published between 1927 and 1977, that would explain why it's in the public domain: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Hirtle_chart




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