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What kills is sufficient disruption of organization. It requires energy to do that but energy itself is not adequate - it is the manner of energy transference that matters.

You could, in theory and depending on location, push an object through an animal very slowly, say over a period of many months, and the animal could live. Using the same object and amount of energy but do it in a small fraction of a second and the animal would often die rather quickly.