Nearly all life gets consumed by some other form of life eventually. Often it's the bacteria and fungi and insects doing the consuming of what we might conside

Nearly all life gets consumed by some other form of life eventually. Often it's the bacteria and fungi and insects doing the consuming of what we might consider more sophisticated organisms. The negative entropy - all the useful molecules concentrated and precisely ordered - can be seen as the thing being consumed. Same goes for chemical or energy gradients like around deep water thermal vents or photosynthesis.