Mourning Our Pets
from the ashes-to-ashes,-kitty-litter-to-kitty-litter dept.
CNN is running this story of the explosive growth in the “pet-death industry”. Among the things mentioned are the rise in pet cemeteries, pet sympathy cards, and support groups for grieving pet-death survivors. “Yet even as the options for mourning a pet multiply, many owners still fear their grief might be mocked or misunderstood,” the article says. Oops. Look, for the record, I’m not the sort of choom who would mock somebody for their grief. Death is death, sorrow is sorrow, and people who can find it in their hearts to love and mourn for other living creatures, be they ape-descended tool-using hominids or otherwise, are okay in my book. Shame on me.
