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Posted by Shelly on 09/21/07 11:38
"Sanders Kaufman" <bucky@kaufman.net> wrote in message
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> "Shelly" <sheldonlg.news@asap-consult.com> wrote in message
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>> Well said. We are the most intelligent animal on this planet. We are
>> the first to know of our mortality almost from birth. I don't believe
>> any other animal realizes that they, too, will die someday in the future.
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> This week, here in Dallas, a story is breaking about a dig in which the
> remains of several Wooly-Mammoth type elephants was discovered.
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> After studying the site, the scientists determined that several of the
> larger animals died in a mud slide during which they teamed together to
> try to lift the younger animals out of the pit.
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> Animals know what death is.
That is not what I said. I said that I believe that we are the only animals
that know with certainty of our OWN EVENTUAL death and that we know of it
early on in our lives. Certainly animals know of death, but that is not
what I said. I don't believe any other animal thinks "someday in the
distant future I will eventually die".
Shelly
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