OMG. It is so funny you all said all these things today. I was just thinking there are earthworms in me and those I want to keep as they burrow their way through the decay so things don't get so impacted. I think decay is normal but what you do with the decay. Farmers plow their land to turn up the rot. Earthworms are put in compost.
And I grew up on a farm and you would be amazed that people think they are living healthy but they aren't. We fed our cows their own flesh and drank out of a well filled with dead animals and gave the cows the same water. Our pigs ate their own young. Cannabalism.