Mnemon: [Putting this in here as I find the anti-thread much more distasteful than this in it's faux-morality outrage. Death of animals happens, a lot.
OctopusMan: People die all the time as well. Should we celebrate that too?
Not celebrate necessarily (but that's not what my argument was about) but acknowledge and accept it a bit more. And I am saying that from the perspective of having had someone die on me, unexpectedly and suddenly, once per decade, so far - plus a few where it was a lot more drawn out [the latest a friend of mine that had been diagnosed with Motor neurone disease (ALS) in 2007 and died beginning of this month].
I'd wish people would have a better - more benign - attitude to our mortality in general. It really does happen, it's not 'negativity' or 'nasty' or 'immoral' to hlghlight that death is a fact of everyone's life. I'd wish people would celebrate the life of the people around them, while they are alive. I'd wish people remember their own mortality more, too; it puts greediness and selfishness in a perspective. You know - you are dying, every millisecond at a time. What you have and what you own doesn't matter in that; but the memories and the life you share does; that is what will linger on after you end. So yes, I'd wish it all would be seen less as a tragedy, because people tent to want to keep tragedy silent and hush it away while being voyeuristic about tragedy befalling people they don't know.
Death happens. The tragedy - as with animals - are the deaths that happen that could be preventable. And there's a lot of those out there. That's what's worth getting wound up and angry about.