A bullet in the brain on a WWI battlefield. Pretty traumatic, but EVERY death is traumatic, a blod clot in the lung or an aneurism in the brain or starving to death on a raft in mid-Pacific. What's the difference? No death is natural, they're all unexpected and they're all violent. In nature, all organisms die of predation, disease, parasites, starvation or accident. It's no different for us. The causes of death are always identical, we just give them different names because we tend to think malaria is natural but getting hit by a meteor during surgery is not. If all deaths are identical, then it doesn't matter.

However, if you'd like to see some of these ideas developed in a somewhat more rigorous fashion, look up Rupert Sheldrake and his "morphic resonance". RS is a biologist who observes that once something happens anywhere for the fiirst time, it starts happening frequently in other places. For example, a trash bacterium invades a fermenting vat, and suddenly it starts to plague the industry all over the world. Or sheep in Scotland learn to cross a a livestock barrier by rolling (instead of walking) over the narrow slots, and suddenly farm animals all over the world pick up the trick. Sheldrake's thesis is that once something happens, even if due to random or accidental causes, it propagates a change in a universal (distance is irrelevant) morphological field that makes it easier to happen somewhere else. Sort of a "disturbance in the force".

He claims he originally developed the idea to explain embryological development, that is, cell differentiation in an embryo is guided by a morphological field which operates at the quantum level to create tissues and organs at the macro level.

I hope I haven't created a Frankenstein with this post.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Sheldrake