The Zeal to Survive

When put into a life or death situation, the animal instinct is to do anything they can to come out alive in the end. The zeal to survive is a powerful one, and facing death is the ultimate motivation.

Titanic, the ocean liner, a said to be majestic ship, but would one day go down in history as a disastrous event. An “unsinkable” invention that would change the way we travel some thought. The captain promised faster, and bigger than ever before and now today people are remembering it, not because of the pace at which it cut through the waters, but the deaths it took as it sunk to the ocean floor. On that April 15, 1912 one-hundred years ago, the passengers of RMS Titanic fought for their lives. They were in utter panic and overwhelmed with morose as they literally felt the water rising and sinking the ship. In the intensity of it all the line between morals and the will to survive got blurred. People would do anything to stay alive, even if the actions put others’ lives at risk.

London, in the book The Call of The WIld, shows just how much not only humans but, animals as well will go to hold on to life. After the dogs were worked to practically death and starved that still kept going because they would not give up and throw in the towel. Death was not an option in their book, they went through the turmoil because they valued the time they spent on earth.

The reaction of all animals is to put your own life first and do anything to save it. What would you go through before you accepted death?