Yesterday, an essay of mine went live at The Deadlands, a lovely publication for speculative fiction, poetry, and nonfiction around death. My piece is a reflection on "nonhuman thanatology". In it, I question the human baseline that we often lean upon when wondering whether other animals "understand" death.
Do we? Consistently? Universally?
A little humility goes a long way in the cosmos.
Happy Friday, CoSo. 🖤🌌
this covered so much, nicely done!
And, THIS. I was thinking this, too:
“In other words, from what baseline are we really deciding that other animals do or do not “understand” death, when our own species varies so widely…?”
The scholars of the past that judged the non-human animals really did them, nor us, any favors. @MLClark
@Armchaircouch Oh, thanks for spending time with the piece, Kat! Glad it resonated. 🤗