My no-nonsense and mostly weird Philosophy teacher once had a very interesting discussion on existence. Not existentialism, just his plain ole cousin existence. He said that every living thing had something intangible that made every being… be.
From every person to the tiniest little animal, there was that intangible essence which defined that living creature as the creature we’ve come to know it to be. If you take a way that essence, you leave nothing but the husk, a shell that once containe