"Dying" is certainly a fuzzy term and subject to abuse as a grounds for
consent (or any other agenda). But I think that it is a fairly common term
of art in tree care, meaning that it is in a "decline spiral" that will lead
to death in the rather short term. As such I think it remains a decriptive
term.
All organisms will die and so are all "dying" but ther term is reserved for
conditions leading to death with some imminence or predictability.... often
with a shortening of an otherwise predictable statistical life.
As Julian notes all tree are dangerous as well.
So while in many circimstance we would want to attached facts and qualifiers
to "dying" it's not a meaningless term.
Cheers.
SC
----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Hastie
To: UK Tree Care
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 10:47 AM
Subject: RE: Dead, Dying, Dangerous Query
Reply interwoven with original for context.
On 01 June 2006 15:43, Collette Briggs wrote:
> Possibly, but are you suggesting the trees do not fall into the DDD
> category?
Well they ain't dead, all trees are dying so that's a pretty useless
exemption anyway. Whether or not they are dangerous depends on the
target, which you haven't told us about.
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