If the rotation period slowed to 1 rotation every 365 days a condition called 'sun synchronous', every spot in the Earth would have permanent daytime or nighttime all year long.
The Earth will never stop rotating. Earth rotates in the purest, most perfect vacuum in the whole universe—empty space. Space is so empty, so devoid of anything to slow the Earth down, that it just spins and spins, practically without friction
Because the rays of the sun gives off a stronger brightness. Also people want to see the effect of the eclipse and are dumb enough to stare at it, which u really can't due to such brightness.
