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Cut from history, author Eric Freedman describes endling as "a word with finality." He opines, "It is deep-to-the-bone chilling to know the exact date a species disappeared from Earth. It is even more ghastly to look upon the place where it happened and know that nobody knew or cared at the time what had transpired and why.
I got the exact same feeling seeing that photo of the Tasmanian Tiger. Extinctions aren't the fault of a single person, but it's still super sad that society couldn't (and can't) get its act together.