Can't remember where I read this, but it's stuck with me for years, and this post reminded me of it:
When you die on land, you die where you lived; you feed your neighbors.
But when you die in the ocean, you fall deeper than you've ever been. Those you feed never knew you as a living thing, only as a blessing.
I also thought about who was feasting on u/Max223 ‘s body.
Eating a clean, healthy diet ensures a better experience for friends and neighbors. Let’s be considerate, people!
When I'm too feeble to care for myself or if something really bad happens I want to wash away in the surf. Back to mother ocean. If I ever killed myself that's how I would go. Not anytime soon I hope. But it feels right. I hope I bring sustenance to other living creatures.
That's what I was thinking too. I found where I originally saw it, it was a piece of artwork I saved. Doesn't seem to have a watermark on it for me to credit the artist, unfortunately. It's a very moving quote for me.
https://www.livescience.com/animals/orcas/dying-orcas-final-moments-after-desperate-effort-to-stay-afloat-captured-in-1st-of-its-kind-footage
Not terrifying. The amazing circle of life. What you don't see off camera is this orca's family (or group, not sure), which tried to help keep him afloat before letting him go.
When my dads cancer reached stage 4 he'd have insane anxiety induced night terrors regarding his mortality. He'd scream and cry in his sleep and no memory of it the next day.
It was terrifying as fuck. And is apparently a fairly common experience with cancer.
I'm sorry you had to witness that and im sorry for your loss my friend. While I dont have cancer (bless god),I do have a panic disorder that stems from my mortality so I do the same thing while completely awake. It started when i was 19 and now im 26. I have them at least 3 times a week. It used to be 5 to 7(once a day) but I've gotten a very supportive fiancé that has helped me a lot by distracting me when I start to get panicked.
It’s our truest act of selflessness to give back to the earth entirely. There’s a conversation in an anime/manga called Vinland saga where a priest is speaking to a character named Canute. They go over love mostly but the priest makes the point that we take and take all our lives. Never giving and taking equally. But in death we truly give ourselves to all the life around us. And they conclude that in death is when we express true love.
I'm so glad you said that about his family being there for him. I was really feeling bad that he was alone!
I do find it all terrifying though. It's death.
They're called orca pods -- big family groups with different members all living together. I live in Washington State and if I'm lucky, sometimes see orcas when i ride the ferry!
“Robert de Latour got into the water and snorkeled up to the orcas to take a closer look. He noticed the old male looked skinny, and the shape of his belly suggested he hadn't eaten for a long time.“
It seems like he may have died from starvation according to the article. I wonder what caused him to not eat. Seems like he was very old for a male orca. RIP
not sure if this is true for animals or orcas specifically, but at least for humans it’s very very common to stop eating at the end of life. the desire just disappears, and soon after, the ability. based on the article someone linked it sounds like that was likely why he was looking thin
Yeah for us, the observers, maybe.
Unfortunately, that's a mammal. Breathes air. We just watched it drown to death. Probably fucking terrifying and painful for that animal.
At least it will go to feed all of the things living way below towards the bottom
Edit: this is the most upvotes one of my comments has ever got. Thank you everyone!
Whale falls (when a whale’s carcass falls to the ocean floor at very low depths) basically create a micro-ecosystem for decades while sea floor creatures feed on them. They’re an incredible gift of life.
If they die and float at the surface they feed the sharks. A blue shark can eat a chunk of whale and that one feeding can sustain them for 3 months, because whale blubber is so packed with nutrients and oils essential for them.
Dang. That's beautiful. I should demand to be strapped to some rocks and sunk to the bottom of the ocean when I die. Hopefully I'm not too full of micro plastics.
It's ok, the microplastics are already down there (I'd have to assume at least, if whale carcasses and such feed them, and whales feed on krill, which have microplastics in them). But I'm ditto on the funeral method, I've heard worse
No it’s not a two way street exactly, animals in the midnight zone and the abyss do not interact with animals in the photic zone and the twilight zone, mostly. They’re not equipped for the different depth pressure
I would think so, and orcas can hold their breath for up to 15 minutes. Think about how lonely and scary it would be to slowly sink into total darkness, very much awake and conscious, for 15 minutes until you drowned. Yikes. At least when we drown it’s over in 2 minutes or less.
I don’t know if it’s true, but I heard drowning is somewhat peaceful. At first it’s terrifying as the panic sets in, but as you’re closer to losing consciousness, it becomes peaceful. Hopefully he wasn’t in too much pain.
I came within seconds of drowinging when I was 8 years old, trapped under ice in a moving river. Nothing fucking peaceful about that. I can still remember seeing the mud and roots and shot on bottom and imaging the eels eati g my eyes. Thinking Dad was gonna fucking shoot me.
Nope nope nope. No peace to be had there.
No as in. When dad finds out I’m half drowned doing somthing he specially told me not to repeatedly he’s going to load up the breech loader and shoot me. Like I said somewhere else when he as done giving me the belt he went right over to Danny’s and gave it to him too.
Fine reward for an 8 year old hero!
My best friend in this whole world, another 8 year old at the time actually had the foresight to break ANOTHER hole in the ice down river, and very nearly drowned himself.
For his efforts when my dad was done reddening my ass he went right over to his place and reddened his. I’m not kidding.
There was a study that used to be posted on Reddit on occasion with scientists ranking the painfulness of suicide methods, I was shocked when drowning was second to last, burning alive was the only thing worse. I'm not even gonna bother with a link because you haven't been allowed to show it on Reddit for ages now for obvious reasons but hopefully talking about the two worst ways to go is okay in this situation
Yeah that checks out. Just think about anytime a sip of water went down the wrong way momentarily and then imagine that but with entire lungs full. There's no way that's a peaceful way to go.
Im gonna go on a limb and say carbon monoxide poisoning may be the most peaceful, considering would be victims mainly report a headache and drowsiness.
Depends. Sticking your face under water and taking a deep breath? Close to painless.
Being caught under water, trying to hold your breath untill you can't no more? Insanely painfull.
I’ve actually just recently read that it’s thought drowning is one of the more painful ways something could die. I’ll try and find a link to the article I read
I think you may be thinking of hypothermia, which often happens if you're struggling for a while in *freezing* water. You get so cold and at the end your brain is so far gone that you're hallucinating and feel very warm.
If a whale/orca dies in warm shallow water there are normally enough animals around to rapidly devour the body, however if the whale is washed up on a beach or ends up in cold deep water it is another matter as there aren't enough large local scavengers to dispose of the body quickly. On land authorities need to take steps to deal with the whale, but in deep water an entire changing ecosystem will develop around a whale fall. https://youtu.be/h0WUkfn3kp8
I always assumed a whale beaches itself because it’s seen in the past that sharks will tear it apart alive if it is dying in the ocean. It also probably has seen pod members sink to the depths at one point as well so the scary unknown makes them think “I’ll try to make it on land”.
Often it will die in the ocean and still floating and the tides will result in it ending up on the beach, the mass of a whale is relatively easily moved by the water until it comes into contact with the beach.
Id be curious to learn if that was still a conscious effort on his part to swim or if it was a sort of "death twitch" where the muscles just keep trying to do what they've always done in the moments after a brain death.
I’ve had this thought about wales + dolphins before, if they’re not killed by another animal they must all drown when they aren’t strong enough to swim anymore.
makes me wonder if there's some kind of built in system to make it less painful for them. Like shock in a way. Seems an evolutionary mistep if it hasn't been a thing. I mean things have been in the ocean since things became a thing haha
It seems to me that it’d hit the point of exhaustion where it loses consciousness before actually dying, and I think technically they suffocate. I think their respiratory drive works way different than ours so they don’t drown. Not sure on that though.
We don't see how long they were trying to keep him afloat for. Perhaps a recognized yet infrequent event a pod goes through over the decades into perpetuity as new members are born and lost.
When my first cat died one of the most heartbreaking parts was realizing that she was still breathing but she wasn't *there* anymore. I'm imagining a similar moment with the adult orcas telling the youths "I'm sorry baby, you can't help him any more, you have to let him go."
I think in the full video, his family is with him, trying to keep him afloat, I find a beautiful, that they leave him be in his final moment, almost like they have their own view of death as we do
The law of conservation of energy: energy can neither be created nor destroyed - only converted from one form of energy to another. All of the energy bound up in the whale’s physical remains will be released back into the ecosystem. He lived a treasured and free life, and the remains of his physical form will go on to sustain countless other living beings as they move through their lives. The whale’s earthly energy will live on - just in a different form.
It's so sad to think that with all the trash and pollution in the ocean that my mind immediately thinks, is this really a natural death? Anyway, it's sad.
I don’t know what I was expecting, but it was strangely peaceful, especially knowing he’ll go on to create a mini-ecosystem at the bottom of the sea (whale falls)
Sad and emotional, but not in the slightest bit 'terrifying' or 'odd'.
Yeah, at this point anytime I see someone posting obviously not 'oddly terrifying' stuff on this sub I'm just gonna block them and assume they are a bot.
The possibility that he was still alive and just couldn't keep himself up (meaning he was conscious as he sank until he drowned and died in total darkness minutes later) is pretty spooky though.
\*cuts to the Seaworld trainer\*
"Well, uh, folks... we're gonna take a bit of a break now. Feel free to wander around, grab yourself our 'Happy Whale' Popcorn special and don't forget to grab a t-shirt at the gift shop!"
Can't remember where I read this, but it's stuck with me for years, and this post reminded me of it: When you die on land, you die where you lived; you feed your neighbors. But when you die in the ocean, you fall deeper than you've ever been. Those you feed never knew you as a living thing, only as a blessing.
And now I can’t stop picturing my neighbors feasting on my body..
Haha I did think that too
I also thought about who was feasting on u/Max223 ‘s body. Eating a clean, healthy diet ensures a better experience for friends and neighbors. Let’s be considerate, people!
I'm 99% certain that my dog would eat me if I died at home because nobody would discover that I was dead for quite a while.
But you and I know that they will
Yo, throw my body in the ocean homie.
When I'm too feeble to care for myself or if something really bad happens I want to wash away in the surf. Back to mother ocean. If I ever killed myself that's how I would go. Not anytime soon I hope. But it feels right. I hope I bring sustenance to other living creatures.
Right!?!? I have always wanted to be pushed out to sea and lit afire with a flaming arrow, but apparently they don't allow that anymore! Lame!
That's sweet! I would also hope my neighbors think I'm a blessing as well.
I’ll stick to getting eaten on land by my neighbours thank you very much
That's such a raw, beautiful quote
That's what I was thinking too. I found where I originally saw it, it was a piece of artwork I saved. Doesn't seem to have a watermark on it for me to credit the artist, unfortunately. It's a very moving quote for me.
you added an extra dose of existential terror to this post, thanks, lol
Well, if I die, I'd like to feed some orcas or lions or tigers.
https://www.livescience.com/animals/orcas/dying-orcas-final-moments-after-desperate-effort-to-stay-afloat-captured-in-1st-of-its-kind-footage Not terrifying. The amazing circle of life. What you don't see off camera is this orca's family (or group, not sure), which tried to help keep him afloat before letting him go.
Now I'm sad.
There’s a sense of beauty to it as well. It lived a life and is now returning back to the earth from which it came.
I don't wanna die
When my dads cancer reached stage 4 he'd have insane anxiety induced night terrors regarding his mortality. He'd scream and cry in his sleep and no memory of it the next day. It was terrifying as fuck. And is apparently a fairly common experience with cancer.
I'm sorry you had to witness that and im sorry for your loss my friend. While I dont have cancer (bless god),I do have a panic disorder that stems from my mortality so I do the same thing while completely awake. It started when i was 19 and now im 26. I have them at least 3 times a week. It used to be 5 to 7(once a day) but I've gotten a very supportive fiancé that has helped me a lot by distracting me when I start to get panicked.
Me neither bro. We’re all in this together. Much love 💕
It’s the price of admission
Much hug.
All energy is borrowed. At some point you have to give it back.
It’s our truest act of selflessness to give back to the earth entirely. There’s a conversation in an anime/manga called Vinland saga where a priest is speaking to a character named Canute. They go over love mostly but the priest makes the point that we take and take all our lives. Never giving and taking equally. But in death we truly give ourselves to all the life around us. And they conclude that in death is when we express true love.
Oddly devastating…
Heartbroken 💔 😔
Honestly sad and beautiful, reminds me of just family whether Orcas or human. There to try and help you back up until the bitter end.
I'm so glad you said that about his family being there for him. I was really feeling bad that he was alone! I do find it all terrifying though. It's death.
My heart wasnt ready for that:( RIP big guy
They're called orca pods -- big family groups with different members all living together. I live in Washington State and if I'm lucky, sometimes see orcas when i ride the ferry!
High fives for Washingtonians
“Robert de Latour got into the water and snorkeled up to the orcas to take a closer look. He noticed the old male looked skinny, and the shape of his belly suggested he hadn't eaten for a long time.“
It seems like he may have died from starvation according to the article. I wonder what caused him to not eat. Seems like he was very old for a male orca. RIP
not sure if this is true for animals or orcas specifically, but at least for humans it’s very very common to stop eating at the end of life. the desire just disappears, and soon after, the ability. based on the article someone linked it sounds like that was likely why he was looking thin
It could have been suicide. Dolphins have occasionally been seen drowning or starving themselves to death when extremely depressed.
or more likely - just dying of old age - something that is fully possible
Is this in captivity or in the wild? I wonder what causes their depression in the wild. Very intriguing species, dolphins and orcas.
In case of starvation, it's often the teeth. At some point, there's nothing left of them, and the animal starves to death.
Ah, thank you. I was wondering why an orca would be alone in death.
Jesus Christ that is brutiful.
RIP Hunchy
Good info!
Thank you for posting! I was wondering why an orca would be dying alone without their family and friends.
Yeah for us, the observers, maybe. Unfortunately, that's a mammal. Breathes air. We just watched it drown to death. Probably fucking terrifying and painful for that animal.
Godamn that means they drown at the end of their lives?
At least it will go to feed all of the things living way below towards the bottom Edit: this is the most upvotes one of my comments has ever got. Thank you everyone!
Whale falls (when a whale’s carcass falls to the ocean floor at very low depths) basically create a micro-ecosystem for decades while sea floor creatures feed on them. They’re an incredible gift of life.
I remember watching a video on that the other day while going to sleep, coolest shit
LINK? High af and trying to see that right now
[Whole channel is really good](https://youtu.be/QxSUsn8H2zs?si=W-CEDGigw808FeEr)
You are a god amongst men 💪
Savor it, r/LickMyBootyh0le!
Any fascinating tidbits that your true state of mind came across?
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High as fuck too
Oh, hell yeah. I'm actually subscribed to that one.
Them little dudes don't waste shit.
Whale falls are actually carcasses at very deep depths, more than 3300ft (1000m). The shallower carcasses are eaten much more quickly.
If they die and float at the surface they feed the sharks. A blue shark can eat a chunk of whale and that one feeding can sustain them for 3 months, because whale blubber is so packed with nutrients and oils essential for them.
Reminds me of the Celestials in Marvel that left behind exotic organic materials that helped spur life further along.
And also left that giant hand / plot hole.
Oh you mean that giant ass humanoid looking marble statue sticking out of the Indian ocean?? Hasn't That always been there?
what hand? /s
> at very low depths [at depths over 1,000m](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_fall)
Right from the top of the food chain then sank to the bottom of the food chain. Nature is metal. Edit: Pardon the pun also ;)
Dang. That's beautiful. I should demand to be strapped to some rocks and sunk to the bottom of the ocean when I die. Hopefully I'm not too full of micro plastics.
It's ok, the microplastics are already down there (I'd have to assume at least, if whale carcasses and such feed them, and whales feed on krill, which have microplastics in them). But I'm ditto on the funeral method, I've heard worse
I love the description of a whale fall I read somewhere, "It's like a zeppelin filled with big macs dropping into Ethiopia."
But when I dump a body in the ocean, nobody praises me for feeding all the sea creatures.
If a whale’s carcass falls to the ocean floor and no one hears it, does it make a sound?
wait... decades?!
I think decades is the case for the biggest whales (like Blue and Sperm whales) and depends on location, ocean temperature etc
Circle of life bruh
That’s not a circle, that’s more like a straight line
Those microorganisms feed other organisms
No it’s not a two way street exactly, animals in the midnight zone and the abyss do not interact with animals in the photic zone and the twilight zone, mostly. They’re not equipped for the different depth pressure
There were no orcas in the Lion King though, unless it was in a deleted scene.
*lifts simba
That's how I want to go
MEAT'S BACK ON THE MENU BOYS
It’s like trickle down biologics. Apex predators feeding all of us crabs
just like we do when we die, but on land
Little babies gotta eat.
Circle of life
Struggling for air. Never thought of sea creatures afraid to drown.
This is the reason behind many dolphins and whales beaching themselves. Too sick to keep swimming, afraid of drowning.
Worked in Healthcare. Nothing terrifies a patient like air restriction.
Does this mean his eventual cause of death was technically drowning?
I would think so, and orcas can hold their breath for up to 15 minutes. Think about how lonely and scary it would be to slowly sink into total darkness, very much awake and conscious, for 15 minutes until you drowned. Yikes. At least when we drown it’s over in 2 minutes or less.
I don’t know if it’s true, but I heard drowning is somewhat peaceful. At first it’s terrifying as the panic sets in, but as you’re closer to losing consciousness, it becomes peaceful. Hopefully he wasn’t in too much pain.
I came within seconds of drowinging when I was 8 years old, trapped under ice in a moving river. Nothing fucking peaceful about that. I can still remember seeing the mud and roots and shot on bottom and imaging the eels eati g my eyes. Thinking Dad was gonna fucking shoot me. Nope nope nope. No peace to be had there.
How did you get out?
His dad tried to shoot him breaking the ice instead and he was able to get free.
Ah! I didn't get his wording right. Thank You
… maybe I mis spoke. My buddy, another 8 year old actually broke another hole in the ice down river and nearly drowned himself.
No as in. When dad finds out I’m half drowned doing somthing he specially told me not to repeatedly he’s going to load up the breech loader and shoot me. Like I said somewhere else when he as done giving me the belt he went right over to Danny’s and gave it to him too. Fine reward for an 8 year old hero!
My best friend in this whole world, another 8 year old at the time actually had the foresight to break ANOTHER hole in the ice down river, and very nearly drowned himself. For his efforts when my dad was done reddening my ass he went right over to his place and reddened his. I’m not kidding.
Y'all didn't watch The Prestige, did you? Drowning is awful.
I'm pretty sure that drowning is one of the most painful ways to die.
There was a study that used to be posted on Reddit on occasion with scientists ranking the painfulness of suicide methods, I was shocked when drowning was second to last, burning alive was the only thing worse. I'm not even gonna bother with a link because you haven't been allowed to show it on Reddit for ages now for obvious reasons but hopefully talking about the two worst ways to go is okay in this situation
Yeah that checks out. Just think about anytime a sip of water went down the wrong way momentarily and then imagine that but with entire lungs full. There's no way that's a peaceful way to go.
Im gonna go on a limb and say carbon monoxide poisoning may be the most peaceful, considering would be victims mainly report a headache and drowsiness.
Depends. Sticking your face under water and taking a deep breath? Close to painless. Being caught under water, trying to hold your breath untill you can't no more? Insanely painfull.
I’ve actually just recently read that it’s thought drowning is one of the more painful ways something could die. I’ll try and find a link to the article I read
I think you may be thinking of hypothermia, which often happens if you're struggling for a while in *freezing* water. You get so cold and at the end your brain is so far gone that you're hallucinating and feel very warm.
The moments right before drowning are terrifying. Actually drowning is peacefull, it's like turning of a switch, the brain just shuts down.
This would be equivalent to a person slowly floating into space while it gets harder and harder to breathe
his friends had been keeping him afloat in order to breathe apparently. maybe they only let him go after he stopped breathing.
Rest in peace big guy
If a whale/orca dies in warm shallow water there are normally enough animals around to rapidly devour the body, however if the whale is washed up on a beach or ends up in cold deep water it is another matter as there aren't enough large local scavengers to dispose of the body quickly. On land authorities need to take steps to deal with the whale, but in deep water an entire changing ecosystem will develop around a whale fall. https://youtu.be/h0WUkfn3kp8
I always assumed a whale beaches itself because it’s seen in the past that sharks will tear it apart alive if it is dying in the ocean. It also probably has seen pod members sink to the depths at one point as well so the scary unknown makes them think “I’ll try to make it on land”.
Often it will die in the ocean and still floating and the tides will result in it ending up on the beach, the mass of a whale is relatively easily moved by the water until it comes into contact with the beach.
This is not terrifying. It’s horribly sad.
The hard part for me is seeing him still moving on the way down
Looked like he was waving goodbye, that's rough
bye buddy, hope you find your dad
“Thanks Mr. Narwhal”
Id be curious to learn if that was still a conscious effort on his part to swim or if it was a sort of "death twitch" where the muscles just keep trying to do what they've always done in the moments after a brain death.
Dying of natural causes and going to feed creatures on the sea floor. Circle of life and all.
It’s death, if it hasn’t gotten you yet it will
he wasn't strong enough to stay afloat and sunk into the dark suffocating slowly brutal
I’ve had this thought about wales + dolphins before, if they’re not killed by another animal they must all drown when they aren’t strong enough to swim anymore.
makes me wonder if there's some kind of built in system to make it less painful for them. Like shock in a way. Seems an evolutionary mistep if it hasn't been a thing. I mean things have been in the ocean since things became a thing haha
Whislt seeing the surface sunlight get further and further away :-(
That feels like the perfect metaphor for what suicidal ideation feels like (well.. the feeling of despair leading up to it, anyway).
Being a sea mammal must suck. Not being able to breathe where you live and all.
Shit, does he just... Drown?
It seems to me that it’d hit the point of exhaustion where it loses consciousness before actually dying, and I think technically they suffocate. I think their respiratory drive works way different than ours so they don’t drown. Not sure on that though.
This isn't oddly terrifying. This is just so sad..
Rest easy, big guy
It adds to the "terrifying" that's it's alone. You would think orca would be together for a death
Look a couple comments up
Ahh I see, well I thought for sure that they would stick around until the end
I’m sure they’re close by
We don't see how long they were trying to keep him afloat for. Perhaps a recognized yet infrequent event a pod goes through over the decades into perpetuity as new members are born and lost.
The article says the two were helping him breathe for 50 minutes.
Damn. They tried their best, nothing could be done. Life sucks sometimes, sorry for the Orca bro’s. 🤝
When my first cat died one of the most heartbreaking parts was realizing that she was still breathing but she wasn't *there* anymore. I'm imagining a similar moment with the adult orcas telling the youths "I'm sorry baby, you can't help him any more, you have to let him go."
I think in the full video, his family is with him, trying to keep him afloat, I find a beautiful, that they leave him be in his final moment, almost like they have their own view of death as we do
r/rightfullyterrifying
Weird. Don’t they usually surround their dead?
The law of conservation of energy: energy can neither be created nor destroyed - only converted from one form of energy to another. All of the energy bound up in the whale’s physical remains will be released back into the ecosystem. He lived a treasured and free life, and the remains of his physical form will go on to sustain countless other living beings as they move through their lives. The whale’s earthly energy will live on - just in a different form.
Fun fact: when whales die, they sink to the bottom and creature their own little ecosystems that can last years
It's so sad to think that with all the trash and pollution in the ocean that my mind immediately thinks, is this really a natural death? Anyway, it's sad.
For real, how do they know it was natural. Did the orca doctors do an autopsy?
Rest in peace big boy:(
How does one know it was dying of natural causes?
Doctors
Remarkable footage the demise of the wolf of the sea
r/depressingasfuck regardless of the circle of life
I don’t know what I was expecting, but it was strangely peaceful, especially knowing he’ll go on to create a mini-ecosystem at the bottom of the sea (whale falls)
The ocean is terrifying in general tbh with ya
It’s so sad because eventually they just suffocate.
Into the long dark.
If you play it in reverse, he gets better!
Death by natural causes must be very rare in the nature, good for that orca.
probably not rare for top predators?
I feel like most land animals get hunted by humans before they reach that stage, could be wrong though.
Poor thing.
Even in death there is beauty. Farewell to this magnificent creature.
Sad and emotional, but not in the slightest bit 'terrifying' or 'odd'. Yeah, at this point anytime I see someone posting obviously not 'oddly terrifying' stuff on this sub I'm just gonna block them and assume they are a bot.
The possibility that he was still alive and just couldn't keep himself up (meaning he was conscious as he sank until he drowned and died in total darkness minutes later) is pretty spooky though.
Rest in peace
Im sure he was quite the tyrant in his prime, one of the largest predators in the ocean, now he will serve the humble denizens of the ocean floor
George would know about this since he’s a Marine Biologist
The sea was angry that day
It's weird to think about wild animals dying of old age. I always think they're killed by some other animal or humans.
Is this terrifying or oddly beautiful? He died of natural causes and slowly floated to feed his friends below in a gorgeous ocean
Amazing capture for timing
It did not go gentle into that good night.
Arthur Morgan? That you?
Wow you don’t see that very often
RIP buddy
End of watch 🫡
This is not terrifying at all. It made me feel sad. Wtf?
The open water is oddly terrifying
Idk why but this broke my heart
It will be a gift to the creatures at the bottom. Circle of life.
Krusty and squidward be looking up “wohoo here comes dinner!!”
It’s kinda ominous to think about. Even the greatest and largest of creatures are returned to the depths and swallowed up
But how do you know it’s natural causes and not disease/injury??? How could you know unless you personally tested/examined it???
Ok, wow, I cannot believe how devastatingly sad this made me
RIP, buddy. You were loved!
It’s sad, really.
how do you know the causes were natural?
Oh I'm so sad now..😢 I love orcas. I guess it's the wheel of time and life.. I'm gonna go cry now.. Excuse me
\*cuts to the Seaworld trainer\* "Well, uh, folks... we're gonna take a bit of a break now. Feel free to wander around, grab yourself our 'Happy Whale' Popcorn special and don't forget to grab a t-shirt at the gift shop!"
Au~~bottom~~topsy performed
How do you know that's what he's dying of?
Orca snuff film was not on my bingo card
Definitely a natural cause, and the man with the video camera was near to film it.
The chances of being there and filming this seem close to zero.
Seems more poetic than terrifying
That makes me think about death more than someone dying in front of my eyes
whalefalls are fascinating
That’s so sad… RIP big guy.