[quote=boagie;15974]midas,
You cannot have been to observant of the wilderness, forest, plains or tundra, wild life is always alert to the dangers of death, the lacks get quickly selected out of the gene pool. It is true consciousness cannot imagine not being conscious, but then, the dead cannot imagine being conscious.
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I'm not much of an outdoorsman boagie but in my observation of animal behavior and plant life, they are alert to dangers as dangers, thats is to those things that threatens life... and on the positive side to those things that will improve their present well being. What i am saying is that death comes and one must be prepared for it to come not with reluctance or forebearance. It is a fact of life that every "matured" living beings faced. I always admire elephants in this way that they go a long way to die in their sacred "burial" place.
Life feeding on life? You seems to look to life simply on the animal side. Plant life does not defend on living things on itself. Life for life to be depends not solely on other life but on the intricate relationship of beings. Human life is in a degree far superior to that, that it dwells also in the realm of the "thou" as the existentialists insists.