I promise this is my last post on pet loss, and before anyone jumps all over me for raising these questions, let me state emphatically that grief rituals are for the comfort of the grieving. Whatever path you choose for yourself, your family or your pets, it is about doing what feels supportive and right [...]
Is the grief over a pet easier? Not necessarily, but there’s one characteristic in our relationship with our pets that would support that hypothesis. Our relationship with our pets is generally much less complicated than our relationships with our human family members. Though this may see counterintuitive at first, the more difficult the relationship with [...]
I recently commented elsewhere on how I thought funeral homes for pets was going a bit far. Not everyone agreed, but I still think the loss of a pet is qualitatively different from the death of a parent, a spouse, a sibling or a child. Now before I start hearing from the animal lovers out [...]
