From spiritual perspective humans can be hungry ghosts
A Hungry Ghost (Preta in Sanskrit, Egui in China, Gaki in Japan) is a mythological spirit from Buddhist and East Asian traditions characterized by insatiable, unquenchable desires.
The remedy for healing our hungry ghost entails looking at patterns of behavior, habits, and choosing a different route. Habits – we are a bundle of them. Our habits impact our experience of living in the moment.
Human can be given no value and lowed to lower reality where there is only hunger and desire. Nothing real permanent safe and our own and ok and real. The poor can have lots of also something their own compared to rich who can lose even everything real. If others lose somebody’s services from their self they can make him or her a hungry ghost. Humans need their own journey that all are enemies to self to handle that has something real to share with others that want in hunger things also from our selfs and we from them. The reality of safety and home and a terrible interest to get more is exciting game that many don’t like it and stay home with what they have. Others are cruel.
Hungry ghost is a term in Buddhism and Chinese traditional religion, representing beings who are driven by intense emotional needs in an animalistic way. The term Chinese: 餓鬼; pinyin: èguǐ; lit. 'hungry ghost'is the Chinese translation of the Sanskrit term preta[1] in Buddhism. "Hungry ghosts" play a role in Chinese Buddhism, Japanese Buddhism, Taoism, and in Chinese folk religion. The term is not to be confused with the generic term for "ghost" or damnation, 鬼; guǐ (i.e. the residual spirit of a deceased ancestor). The understanding is that people first become a regular ghost when they die[2]and then slowly weaken and eventually die a second time.[3][4] The hungry ghosts, along with animals and hell beings, consists of the three realms of existence no one desires.[5][6] In these realms it is extremely difficult to be reborn in a better realm (i.e. the realm of humans, asura or deva) because it is nearly impossible to perform deeds that cultivate good karma.[7]
With the rise in popularity of Buddhism, the idea that souls would live in space until reincarnation became popular.[4] In the Taoist tradition, it is believed that hungry ghosts can arise from people whose deaths have been violent or unhappy. Both Buddhism[4] and Taoism[8] share the idea that hungry ghosts can emerge from neglect or desertion of ancestors. According to the Huayen Sutra evil deeds will cause a soul to be reborn in one of six different realms.[9]The highest degree of evil deed will cause a soul to be reborn as a denizen of hell, a lower degree of evil will cause a soul to be reborn as an animal, and the lowest degree will cause a soul to be reborn as a hungry ghost.[10] According to the tradition, evil deeds that lead to becoming a hungry ghost are killing, stealing and sexual misconduct. Desire, greed, anger and ignorance are all factors in causing a soul to be reborn as a hungry ghost because they are motives for people to perform evil deeds.[2] The biggest factor is greed as hungry ghosts are ever discontent and anguished because they are unable to satisfy their feelings of greed.[11]
Some traditions imagine hungry ghosts living inside the bowels of earth or they live in the midst of humans but go unnoticed by those around them or they choose to distance themselves.[12]