Power outages

On the following day no one died, death was cut off in a small country - with no name - and its inhabitants no longer die and their patient remains as it is, and it may seem wonderful at first to those longing for immortality but Saramago quickly clarifies that it is a disaster threatening humanity. The government cannot deal with this unusual situation, and the pension system has faltered and hospitals and nursing homes are no longer sufficient, and funeral and burial institutions have gone bankrupt. The absence of death has caused chaos unlike any before and unknown to societies, and humanity must accept it as the other face of life, for one cannot live without death, although it appears as an apparent contradiction to life, but in reality we must die for life to continue.