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Yes, if the alternative is being overrun by short-lived but dynamic invaders who don't give a damn about individual life. Whether this is indeed an alternative or just a nightmare scenario depends on many factors worth analyzing, calculating and modeling, not just yelling "shut up, deathist!".
In that situation, I suspect there are very, very many alternatives that would have to be tried and discarded before death as a concept even rose to your consideration. We are biased to consider it first because we already live with it. But that's the point of the argument - imagine death really is alien to you.
From my point of view death is not a single solution but one end of a spectrum of solutions. I thought I had made that clear enough.
Difficult to parse. Obviously you don't mean "not knowing about death". You might mean "not taken as unavoidable unquestioned part of life".
That would not be this universe, where everything so far, alive or not, has a beginning and an end.