There seems to be a consensus that human life is the most valuable form of life on earth. Of course, mine is the most valuable life to me, and my families and so on and so forth. Too often though there is a lot of uproar when a human life is harmed, threatened, or heaven forbid, ended, especially by something natural. Any and every measure is intolerably taken to redeem that unbelievable fate, because death is by all means the absolute worst thing that could happen and must be avoided and prevented at all costs.
If you want to not die, then do not be born.
If, however, you only knew that you wanted to not die after you had already been born, then you must at all costs avoid everything and everyone, because everything and everyone is potentially lethal. Despite the fact that people kill more people than any animal or thing has ever killed people, mosquitoes are THE most harmful and THE most annoying of ALL. I do not condone killing ANYTHING, except mosquitoes. Myriad mosquitoes could (and should) die and I do not think there would be any uproar. Before I deviate from the point (I think I might make one) let me go back to those noxious death traps that are everywhere, and often disguised, which you must avoid at all costs to not die.
Sharks, Satan, serpents (or even little snakes), spiders… I see a pattern here with ‘S’ and I deduce from this pattern that the letter ‘S’ is the deadliest of ALL. To not die, avoid the letter S. I digress, the disguise of things that will kill you, is often not what you would expect, like the letter S or sharks, or snakes, or Satan. The thing that you should avoid at ALL costs to not die, are people (or did I say that already). All things that people make are also the deadliest of all.
These death traps are also disguised by people (more evidence of why you should avoid people and what people say and write and make). For instance, if a shark takes a bite out of a flailing fare from it’s only feeding ground, people will kill thousands of sharks. That shark saw a clearly injured piece of food floating where he looks for food, took a bite, realized people are gross and moved on. That person was probably injured (not just flailing like us bathers do) and possibly fatally, and every single person in the whole world heard about it. The fact that the very waters this incident occurred in are more dangerous (more people drown, drown in rip currents, drown in puddles or from jellyfish) is inconsequential. You never hear about people culling jellyfish, or mosquitoes, oh wait they did try to cull mosquitoes (no comment).
I love all life but it is an inevitability that death will occur. It is also an inevitability that can only happen in so many ways, and with seven billion and counting people there are not enough ways left, of which people are trying desperately to prevent most of those ways. This however will only lead to other ways, we cannot all live forever, and would we want to, don’t most of you have heaven to get to?
My point, as much as we blame the letter ‘S’, there will come a time when you will die. It is not something you can prevent, we can cure all the diseases, predict all the storms, kill all animals that threaten our life, and make a million laws stopping us from doing anything that could kill us, and then, we will still die.
There will hopefully come a time when people will realize this. Then they will respect all the other life forms that exist. So that when someone dies, there will be no misguided culls (unless it is of those people who do those things), there will be no uproar (unless it is again those people), and we accept that we are all going to die, somehow, somewhere, some day.
{[(This is not just a response to Australia’s shark cull or South Africa’s culling through the shark nets that has run for decades, or any of the zoo / game reserve / park / sanctuary creatures that have been killed, it is a response to death. Dreadful insufferable death that makes life… life)]}
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