Your thoughts on Evolution?

Living organisms consume and multiply to further the continuation of their kind. If we could live forever, there would be no need to consume and reproduce. Organisms either develop a means of reproduction (budding, autogamy, mitosis, meiosis, and allogamy) or die out.

What made them do so?

All the living organisms that couldn't feed themselves died off. All the ones that couldn't duplicate also died off. The remaining ones could duplicate and feed themselves. Easy as pie!

As far as I know, that's simply how we define "life".
Things that grow but don't multiply, like stalactites, aren't considered "alive".
Things that multiply but don't grow, like viruses, are also not strictly considered "alive".

The virus I get, but stalactites? O.o
What I meant is thing like bacteria that:
1) As the first living organism it had to came from non-living material so an organism that only borns and dies could still be around, just like stars are born and never "eat" or "grow" or "duplicate" but we have billions upon billions of them.
2) Once it somehow got the urge to "eat" to live longer it didn't mean it had to "eat" more than what it needed to restore the energy used or damaged tissue(not sure on that word) but this stage is quite fragile since the next one is way too easy to progress to from this one.
3) So we now have an organism that pretty much can live forever since it figured out that "eating" all it can find would mean that in worse times (whatever it eats is no longer around, so either it waits or searchs for it) it can manage to survive, but is there any reason to multiply? it most likely would just shorten its supply.

So even though our definition of live is it eats, it grows, it duplicates, where are the ones that didn't reach it?
It seems we only have one right now, viruses, that only duplicate but don't eat nor grow.
But still the big question is, how it went from inorganic material to something that started eating, growing and duplicating.