shitlord mother nature - the spider edition So I have a friend that likes to keep spiders, she has tons of em at home, different species and all. I like her tarantulas (fluffy and whatnot, they're the ones that are least likely to spook and run off too), so I had one in hand while she showed me another container with one that was molting. She explained how in "the scene" people kept track of not how many years the spider's alive, but how many times it has molted. Said it was like a sort of badge of honor, because they're very sensitive during and just after molting and could die just like that. She then said something brilliant - that usually when a spider dies from molting in captivity, its because the owner fed it too much and it gets too fat, giving it extra trouble while molting due to its unnatural fatass shape. So there you have it folks, a fat spider dies because nature deems it too goddamn unnatural to live. Just like how we live longer than our planetary sized counterparts.