Death is the permanent end of the life of biological organisms- Wikiquotes
There is a process no living thing could evade, an inevitable stage. From every indications, it has no specific timing; it comes beckoning without alerting. It had taken my loved ones away when i least expected, my dad and mom.
So i'll like to take the pain to examine the necessity of Death with the resources available for the living.
"Death is the necessary mechnism to maintain a balanced resouces" -
With your permission and due respect dear i will like to disect this quote from your last post; what if the entire population is wiped out of an Eco-system, then what resources is needed to be maintained or rationalised?
I have been asking myself this same question since reading the post THE EVOLUTION OF ADAM- THE BIOLOGICAL PURPOSE OF DEATH
DOES DEATH HAS BENEFITS
Is there any direct benefits from the death of another organisms?
A yes and a No!
Taking humans first to justify the No- It is a devastating effects on the surviving ones.
There is a termination of all familiar bond coupled with social detachment from the dead and this has varied results on the family or friends behind like grief, depression or maybe suicide.
For animals and plants, yes death has so many benefits. A dead animal provides food for thousands other organisms there by sustaining more lives- Illustrations
A dead Antelope
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Vultures, Carnivores, Insects,Microbes, fertilizer the soil- bring good crops.
A biological necessity and yet a mechanism as seen in the above analysis, but this principle does not apply to higher animals-intelligent species.
THE BALANCE OF NATURE
Scientifically, evolution and struggle for survival is the surest mechanism to balance resources for all living organism in a particular habitat. The intervention of human into any Ecology has both a good and a devastatimg effects on the resources ans organisms.
The theory that proposes that ecological systems are usually in a stable equilibrium i.e a small change in some particular population will be corrected by some negative feedback that brings the parameter back to it's original "point of balance" with the rest of the system.
From this assertions, death could be a Biological necessith and at the same time a resources balancing process taking a cue from:
"The predator/prey" system and also herbivorous and their food source.
In essence, Biodiversity and the Ecosystem service is a strong factor determining the function of death as a resources balancing process or a necessary Biological system.