In the case of humans, and hugely in the case of urban North Americans, we need scores of things to die every minute in order for us and our way of life to keep on going. It’s the same for vegans and vegetarians, pretty much. Life doesn’t feed on life. Life doesn’t nourish life. Death feeds life. Every rooted thing knows that and proceeds accordingly. Death is the life-giving thing. That is the proposition that life offers, that grief endorses. Everything dear to you will perish so that life might continue. Our deaths can, in every sense the word can be meant, feed life—unless we refuse to
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