How far down the Evolutionary Scale do we go before we say, "This Life has No Value!"? You see here an image of a Flicker! I was recently handed a badly injured one to care for. I knew it would be in vain! I did what many of you might do. I tried feeding it. Tried to get water into it. "It"? By using "IT" , do I devalue "It"? In any case, the bird died while I was carrying it around in my shirt. Normally I would just bury it! Not so this time! For those of you that think Humans have the Lock on Souls, bear with me! This bird did not "Leave". You have read my Bio and know I am a HSP. So the Touchy Feely side of me is still connected to this bird. Being that only a t-shirt seperated us at it's Demise, it crossed over! Now, here is my Question! At what point in the Ladder of Life do you say that this is "Not a Real Life?" A Dog? Cat? Bird? Spider? Cockroach? A "Real Life" has a Soul! A "Spirit"! Where do you draw the "Line"? I guess I do not know enough to draw that Line. I profess to have "Old Beliefs!" A "Life is a Life"! So tonight, at a Full Moon, I will lay this birds Body on a Funeral Pyre, and send it on it's way. Melodramatic?? Maybe! What if this Bird was your "Pet Bird?" How would you feel? Thought so!! Every Life has Value!! When you diminish One, you diminish ALL!! Art/ A Spiritual Person