Andrew,
If you had a few debilitating parasites (still common in many parts of
the world) would you commit suicide because your life would be bad?  All
organisms cling to life as long as they can.  What can you get that is
better?

Allen Aigen  NYC
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On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 06:24:04 +1300 Andrew Grebneff
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> >Andy,
> >There are enough parasitic snails to keep this malacologic (as
> some
> >have gone completely internal in holothurians, losing their
> >shells.)What is it about parasites that makes people cringe?
> >Perhaps the idea that the Creator made life in his own image and
> >therefore benificent ("... and it was good.")?  Real life is not
> the
> >Garden of Eden, but it is good!
>
> Ask a holothurian full of Entoconcha and encrusted with Melanella
> just how good it is...
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