User blog comment:Njalm2/Nanja's Point of View: Shinigami Edition/@comment-24384232-20150504221239/@comment-2182964-20150504225423

I'll keep this to the souls in Rukongai. I think life for an average soul can be summed up pretty easily like this: classic survival of the fittest. The strong flourish and the weak perish. No more, no less. We've seen plenty of cases in the canon and more again outside of it (The 3rd Phantom game springs to mind). Sei touched on it below too. The Gotei 13 don't care because their lives are fleeting and they've more important things to worry about and, if necessary, they'll sacrifice them without a second thought. Becoming a Shinigami to escape this? Sounds like a plan!