oh yeah, I remember thinking that at that point, that he should have still eaten it.
He writes in his diary "should have never killed that moose... one of the biggest tragedies of my life"
first of all, wow, yes very dramatic... and other living creatures got a meal out of it, so its death wasn't in vain.
Speaking of which, I want to make sure that when I die my body is eaten and makes its way back into the earth... please no coffin.