What is the EVOLUTIONARY advantage of death?

Their is no advantage to dying for the individual and there is no connection between death and reproduction except for the fact that when an individual is out of the picture there are more of a limited number of resources made available to the survivors which may or may not enable them to reach their reproductive potential.You imply that we somehow have any choice in death. We die because the very structures that allow us to exist in the first place are subject to degradation from interaction with the enviroment.

The key aspect here is that while we are doing our level best to survive so is every other creature so while it is unlikely that we can,through evolution,"patch ourselves back together"if we never passed away then those who survive eventually replace all the other species as competitors foer limited resources.Can you imagine 100,000,000,000 people on Earth.Damn, I don't know about you but I wouldn't want to be in the work force when that many people decide to retire to their pensions.