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Damien L asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 1 decade ago

My theory is that every time someone dies, someone else is born at the same time. How do I prove this?

Either proving or disproving would work. Any ideas?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Attempt to acquire the vital statistics reports for every hospital, nursing home, and coroners offices all over the world

  • 1 decade ago

    I think this would be fairly easy to disprove if you had birth rate records. Assuming that "at the same time" means almost instantly (and I note that you did NOT in fact say that every birth must have a corresponding death, merely that every death has a corresponding birth, which could allow for a growing world population) then all you have to do is go back and find out if there were inexplicably about 5,000-odd more births than normal on September 11, 2001. Actually, large natural disasters would probably work even better than this. Also, you could just look back and see if the entire world has ever gone into population decline (I'd have to check records, but the Black Death may have done this...)

    Okay, your theory is disproved. According to Wikipedia (which is pretty reliable for broad facts like this) the Black Death killed off about 100 million people worldwise around 1400. So your theory is impossible.

  • 1 decade ago

    first and foremost, if this theory is global, you're wrong. there are in some areas, more births than deaths and in other areas long stretches of neither occur but at NO TIME is there life for life - EVER! i once thought that too but the overall trend is somewhat less romantic. check the UN world population records and go from there. wanna do small? where do you live and work from those records. believe me, you'll be very surprised. also, in times of economic stress, one of two things occur: little or a lot of births. why? either people hold back making another life due to $$$ concerns or births are up because of too much time on their hands and, nine months later, the products of idleness appears. go figure - hey! didn't malthus do this (& fail)?

  • ?
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    1 decade ago

    Well supposedly my friend, statistics say that to every one death and at the moment of death too, 3 new lives enter the world, any place in the world too not just the country the death occurs. So its some sort of scientist organizations that come up with these statistics to start with, so that I am afraid is the only clue I can give you to help you trace just who.

    Try asking a Search Engine the question, just type in your search bar ''world statistics of births and deaths''. I would do it for you myself and then come back with the answer, but unfortunately at the moment my computer is playing silly sods, once I leave one website the one I was in disappears, and of course its then hard to find you again on Yahoo, for you have taken off too.

    But the 3 to 1 ratio is something that I have heard so many times, I am sure that it is true.

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  • 1 decade ago

    It would be almost impossible to prove. There are billions of people on earth and the chances that someone in New York City died on a Monday at 3PM exactly and that someone in China died at exactly the same time (adjusting for the time differential ) is probable. Proving it would take the most sophisticated researcher a very long time to prove.

  • 1 decade ago

    That is a really interesting theory, but one of those things that would be completely impossible to prove or disprove.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    the death is not absolute death as there no absolute timeing we can say someone is born..

    when sperm enters into female egg, and make the first cell - we can say that a human is born?

    other side, when someone dies, their some body parts are still alive, when they die? so the absolute term are not defined

    when the sperm diffuse the egg is birth and when total death of all consciousness is death. Then according to this view, there are millions of more births then deaths, logically, when someone dies, lots of other born probably near time or at same time

  • EP
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Interesting. Possible but unprovable and not very likely. Of course, it can't be the other way around unless we have a hidden supply of people somewhere but I suppose there's no way to show that what you propose is not true. Of course, that's never a good basis for a theory unless you're just playing around. What evidence do you offer?

  • 1 decade ago

    I would assume that because the worlds population is on an increase this would disprove your theory.

  • 1 decade ago

    If that's the case, then there will not be high death rate in world war although there is a large population base. Get what I mean? Population will stay at 0 rate. Neither increase or decrease

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