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Have we humans lost more of our own instinctual knowledge than we may have noticed, preferring instead, to kill ourselves
and one another slowly with modern technology's questionable concepts, inventions and 'shortcuts’?
How can we distinguish between projections of our own human fears of pain and death, and the true experience of animals as
they face their own demise?
Why would a pair of wolves choose to walk back into a forest fire together rather than walk out into the 'pack'
of humans also fleeing the fire? Why is the known/unknown fear or dread of interacting with us more alarming to them
than certain death by smole and fire? Is there a 'survival instinct' for ending one's life in one form, in order to continue
it in another form?
Do salmon, with their urgent efforts to spawn upstream know in advance that if they do, they will then die?
One species of animals leaves this planet - forever -
every 20 minutes. Extinct! Where
do they 'go?' And, why
are they leaving us behind?
Why are 'perfectly healthy' rehabilitated wild animals
so often found dead in their
cages - the day before they
were to be released to the wild?
When a species on the brink of extinction is revived "artificially" - whether by petrie dish or controlled
environments and artificial insemination - how does that change the "group" lifeforce and the genetics of a species?
Further, is extinction "hard-wired" into a species the same as we assume survival is?
All species?
Even ours?
Few animals appear to ever kill for pleasure - and
even those we label as doing such may have other plans and purposes we have not observed or do not understand. If
we do not fully comprehend why animals do certain things which may or may not appear to sustain their very lives - how can
any of our own species-centric observers be certain we understand any acts of seemingly deliberate dying?
We accept
the eagle mates for life - for the lifetime of its mate - not for its own lifetime. The eagle has even been observed staying
at the side of its mate until death; hunting and returning with food for its trapped or shot or poisoned dying mate. Both
females and males do this. Typically the survivor leaves after the mate dies and continues its life alone or eventually
mates again in a new monogamous union. Humans romanticize the eagle for this, ignoring other eagle traits many human
cultures would find abhorrent; kicking deformed offspring out of the nests to a death-fall comes to mind. While we can 'pick
and choose' which "animal traits" we value - and assign them as iconic to certain cultural functions such as athletic
team titles and Cub Scout 'dens' - it does not reveal a human understanding of that species, more it expresses our human
minds' desire to view the world as black and white, good or bad, strong or weak, right or wrong. Animal reality
may or may not be so simplistic and self-serving. Can we handle that?
 Are animals any different than people, sometimes 'dying of a broken heart' shortly after a
loved one dies? Or, is the heart not broken, and the animal, instead, fearing no death, simply does what it needs to do, in
order to 'find' the beloved in the 'next life’?
 How can we distinguish between projections of our own human fears of pain and death, and the
true experience of animals as they face their own demise? Things are not always as they appear. There are many (copyrighted)
photos on the internet of a salmon seemingly leaping directly into a bear's mouth - the 'two-dimenional' observer could deduce
that it was intentional - and thus a type of suicide. Being on locale however, one might refute saying that the odds were
anything with an open mouth - or holding a basketball hoop - in the middle of a salmon rush would have had to work hard
to NOT catch a couple flying salmon. 'Collecting animal behavior evidence' of any type
is subjective when interpretted by the human bias. Experiments based in 'controlled environments' such as laboratories and
zoos are heavily biased as animals do not live their natural existences in labs and zoos and thus their 'natural behvior'
is thwarted and skewed in controlled synthetic environments. Any so-called scientific findings about animal behavior based
on the tainted bias of coercion and manipulation of the animals and/or their environments tells us more about human
nature and the extent to which our own species will go to create a smaller, myopic, more simplistic definition of Life via
dissection and compartmentalization.
 Do the myths and legends of Wolves intergere with our understanding of them? Countless books
and films portray wolves as predators of human beings althought the first record of any wild wolf attacking and killing a
human being in centuries was this month (March 2010) and all the facts may never be known. How does our pre-conceived notion
of what an animal species is and isn't prevent us from objectively observing behaviors?
 If energy (at least most energy as currently determined by the scientific community at large)
is neither created nor destroyed - then when a fish is eaten by a larger fish (ad infinitum) is there possibility that the
energy of consciousness also travels - either into that which devours it or outside of the physical dimension or into BOTH
and maybe even more dimensions which so far elude our own verifiable intelligence? If the energy of the prey being eaten stays
with the body does it then "live on" in a different form - (aka energy) embuing that predator lifeform with fuel
(energy) to continue its own physical living? If "we" continue - in any form of energy be it physically contained
or otherwise, then is ending one's current tangibly recognizable existence really an 'end' or merely a 'fluxing' of the
energy previously known as Ed, Bob, or Benji? In other words - does the dissappearance
of life in one form necessarily mean the end of that life and if animals are cognizant of other dimensions of continuation
- what is suicide but a change of hides and means of transportation?
 One species of animals leaves this planet - forever -
every 20 minutes. Extinct! Where
do they 'go?' And, why
are they leaving us behind?
 Why are 'perfectly healthy' rehabilitated wild animals
so often found dead the day before
they
were to be released to the wild? Why do some of the same species accept human assistance while others in similar
states of physical and mental health decline our help? Why do dolphins an whales beach
themselves and often return to the same spot to die after humans have dragged them back out to sea? Are they deliberately
trying to communicate something to us? And if so, is it about them specifically or a broader statement about life and death,
living and dying, the state of the polluted waters and the fate of human beings who caused them? Or are they teaching us how
to die? Or how not to? Or do we credit them with more altruism than there is justification for? And just how do we conclude
that - or anything else about animals - without more projection and anthropomorphism?
 Are animals any different than people, sometimes 'dying of a broken heart' shortly after a
loved one dies? Or, is the heart not broken, and the animal, instead, fearing no death, simply does what it needs to do, in
order to 'find' the beloved in the 'next life’?
When the "Lion King" in real life kills very young
males who would someday possibly pose as a threat to his ruler status - he is also killing the potential of his pride,
his species? Is "killing the future" a type of suicide?
If so, what does that say about the way human
beings treat not only our own specie's future, but as well the viability of this planet as the sustainer of all our futures?
(Assuming moving to other planets is not a viable option.)
 Scientists know that eagles and hawks have such an advanced eyeball structure that they must see colors we mortals
have yet to even imagine! We also know that the 'color' white is perceived by our human eyes as 'white' but that
in scientific reality white is the merger of ALL COLOR infused with light.So the logical mind must ask: - When
the Hawk or Eagle sees a mountain cloaked in white snow - is it really seeing a glimmering rainbow of glistening colors we
humans have never envisioned?
- If they see basic white as appearing as complex as all colors co-existing in place
of the blankness we see - what else might they (and every species) perceive differently as a part of their truthful reality?
- Whose reality matters more - and to whom - and when - and where - and why?
- Always?
 Are animals any different than people, sometimes 'dying of a broken heart' shortly after a
loved one dies? Or, is the heart not broken, and the animal, instead, fearing no death, simply does what it needs to do, in
order to 'find' the beloved in the 'next life’?
Before we jump to any conclusions about animal suicide -
we might best emulate these marsupials - keep our developing opinions in our own pouches while they grow. And
when they do pop out - accompany those immature opinions with a disclaimer, "Oops! It's still growing, changing
and no where near maturation. We're in a phase. "
CAPTION:
The Hunter: I'm about to bag a big one ! OR The
Deer: It's a good day to stop being a deer.
OR The Deer: Yes. You may have my body to feed your family. I myself have feasted on many families - of clover,
nettles, and corn. You're welcome, as have been I, Brother.
OR The Aboriginal Hunter: Thank you for what you are about to offer me - I will use all that you give me - I will
waste nothing. I am humbled by you and I make this promise; as I use the body you are gifting me I will pray for the journey
of your Spirit as it continues on and I will tell my children of your generosity and your good life here and we will walk
under the stars as you have for many years, and we will sing you on and never forget.
OR The Wise One: Life (and Death) it's all a Dream - We are all both predator and preyed upon, and then - we
awaken.
OR Your words here:
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Thank you for visiting our site! Your comments can help create our book! ANIMAL SUICIDE ( ANIMAL WISDOM
) a new book by Maya Piñon (coming 2011 - from Talon Press) - Do Animals; our Pets, Wildlife, Lab Animals ever choose to end their own lives?
- What is their consciousness like, if and when, they choose to deliberately die?
- How
does this fit with our previously held beliefs about life-force, natural laws? 'survival of the fittest', life-after-death,
euthanizing pets, our own man-made laws that make 'suicide' a 'crime'? What can we learn from them?
Under what circumstances would animals, individually or collectively, determine the timing of their own deaths? And,
how do they accomplish this? Why?
ANIMAL SUICIDE (release date ~ Winter 2011 TALON
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Her upcoming book, begins this timely discussion with all the correct (and hard) questions...
From her unique Native American Indian perspective, Maya Piñon offers us all a chance and
a challenge, to 'walk in her moccasins' as she shares Ancient Animal Prophecy, backed by scientific research, and the eye-opening
and undeniable observations by people just like you. Through this journey in her moccasins, we also get to fly on the wings,
swim with the fins and leap on the hooves of animals who appear to take that final mortal step with the same natural cadence
of a life that lead them there.
- One species of animals leaves this planet - forever - every 20
minutes. Extinct forever! Where do they go? And, why are they leaving us behind?
- What else are our aged or injured
pets trying to tell us, when they are ready to die?
- Why do pods of intelligent dolphins beach themselves in acts of
mass suicide?
- Is the 12 prong buck that walks up to the hunter, deaf and blind from old age-or self-determinedly 'ready
to go'?
- Why are seemingly 'perfectly healthy' rehabilitated wild animals so often found dead in their cages - the
day before they were to be released to the wild?
- Have you ever thought that an animal 'deliberately' ran or flew in
front of your vehicle?
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We are preparing a book on all aspects of animal suicide* and are soliciting stories or thoughts on the subject. Please respond
with any ideas, thoughts, comments or detailed stories. We are looking for any accounts or incidents on the subject; any references
to stories; scientific studies regarding it; historic accounts or folklore; and most of all your personal experiences and
thoughts on this matter – or topics directly related to it. Many thanks! You can enter your comments HERE!
*We define this broadly – self-termination of life for most any reason - to avoid pain [mental and physical]; as a
reaction to any human, environmental, internal or other situational stimuli; or as they simply wish or feel they need do.
We come from world-view there the differences between human and non-human animals are minor – and with compassion for
all fellow-beings who we share this planet with - and walk together along the path of life with, intertwined.....
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