Crime And Punishment In The Post-Mortal World

How do ideas of crime and punishment change in a world where the cure exists?

In the post-mortal the world is faces a new challenge in punishing crimes. Death from aging is no longer possible when a criminal is given a life sentence furthermore driving up prison costs. The incurring costs of running a prison forces society to reclassify the severity of a certain crime and restructure punishment administered to criminals who now possess the potential to live forever.

To address this problem, in the Post-Mortal, Texas passes a legislation known as Darian’s law which expands death-penalty offenses beyond murder to include violent crimes such as rape, arson, child abuse, and capital assault. This legislation passed as a result of the state’s

How would its role in meeting social needs change with the cure?

In a society where an entiernetiy could be achieved, the concept of marriage changes dramatically. In the Post-Mortal society sees marriage as chaining a human being down for one possess the ability to potentially live forever, furthermore forcing one to commit to a person for a potential thousands of years. Given this, divorce rates go up and the concept of cycle marriages are introduced to this society. Cycle marriages last for 30-40 years and are implemented so people won’t have to commit to someone forever.

John Farrell, the main character of the post mortal, is forced to acquire practice in Divorce statue as everyone in this society is filing a Divorce. People in this society see the cure changes the entirety the agreement of marriage and as a result, more divorces are filed. While divorces are being filed the concept of cycle marriages are introduced. Cycle marriages are seen mostly with negative connotation in the Post-Mortal and few people obtain cycle marriages while most abstain from a commited relaitionship altogether given the cure changes the concept of long-term

John isn’t sure wheither or not the cure he is administered with is even the real cure and obtains the cure without consulting his friends or family members. In the beginning of the Post-Mortal, people who have been admistered the cure fail to tell any frineds nor family members they got it as they see their action as a crime and do not tell family or friends as a result of possible punishment for their crime.

I hypothesized people did not tell ones close to them whether or not they got the cure as a result of the cure itself being a controversial subject and at the beginning a criminalized act. People in this post mortal society did not wish to attract attention of the opposition of either side and as a result kept the decision of getting the cure to themselves to minimize potential dangers that arise from getting the cure and problems that arise as a result from not getting the cure.

Describe and explain a situation in which getting the cure negatively or positively affects a small