Posted by Sanders Kaufman on 09/21/07 12:06

"Shelly" <sheldonlg.news@asap-consult.com> wrote in message
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> "Sanders Kaufman" <bucky@kaufman.net> wrote in message

>> 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".

Maybe not in English, but...
Today, in Africa and SE Asia, are "elephant graveyards".
The dying elephants go there to die, and adult elephants take their young on
trips to visit the graveyards.

I don't think they go there to collect ivory.

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