The Paradox Of Death

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In the last chapter, I can see her transition from being indifferent to the meat industry, then to experiencing and understanding what does death mean, and finally to inventing and assisting in the slaughter house to minimize animals’ pain. She put forward an interesting paradox, the paradox of life and death:unless there’s death, we could not appreciate life. Most of us are familiar with the concept of death, as social media sometimes report news regarding dying people, but we can hardly gain a sense of what death is without directly spotting it. Since we don't need to worry about aging and health, though death is internally scary, it seems so far away from us. However, just as what Grandin experienced, when death is approaching, we would

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