Death is Standing on the Welcome Mat

Death, generally a sad, morose, gloomy, melancholy, and miserable topic, the topic that 'kills' the vibe in any room. Death is often seen as a bad thing and comes with rather negative subject matter, but death can also be viewed in a positive manner, though it may seem “wrong.” I say that death is a good thing, sure the at first the thought of eternal and immortal life seems wonderful; never dying, and never growing old, but then what? Living forever can make you feel like you are stuck in a rut and are never getting out. Comparing the pros and cons, it is plain to see that death at the appropriate time is a favourable thing. Eternal life will become monotonous, and over population would become (if not already) a serious problem. The thought of being around to see what the future has in store is a big persuasion for the cons however.
When we are born, people hope that we live a long and happy life, but everything including humans are essentially made or born to die. We are taught when we are young that our goal, path, purpose or whatever you wish to call it is to: get an education, get a job, get a spouse, and have children to continue the cycle. As said in the film Bee Movie, we go to school, then work until we die. That can be applied to us in the real world, some people have to work until they die to be able to financially support themselves and/or their family and they fear death until they know that their family will be well off when they are gone.
In contrast, some people are open and inviting of death. People who are terminally ill are more aware of the inevitable fate of death, some who are permanently hospitalized due to illness for the rest of their lives may wish for a quicker end as they have no reason to stick aro...

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...to be 'good enough' to have to leave a legacy.
Unfortunately that leads back to the pros of death. With all the generations of each family existing, over population would wring dry the resources of the planet assuming that mass population space travel or colonizations on other planets has yet to been created. I cannot fathom the concept of immortality without the necessities in life such as clean water and other resources, without altering the construct of human beings. If we are still human we would require water, food, and oxygen, with the amount of pollution that would result of the massive population I do not understand how we could survive despite being immortal, we would have to alter our genetic make-up and then we would no longer be who we are. But as Bernard Williams states in his essay, “we cannot expect to forever keep unmodified human bodies and brains.”