What is the price of Life?

The responsibility of life is where one is given guidance over another living breathing thing. If something unfortunate were to happen to the lesser being, then the overseer would be held accountable. The member held accountable would face the consequences whether it would be from nature or by law. As for the zeal to survive, when a being is confronted by a life threatening obstacle, every once of ancestral instinct comes in to play and the being attempts every possible method of survival. This will to carry on causes the being to do a variety of abnormal tasks that they would not normally perform such as the severing of a appendage like that in the movie 127 Hours.