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Is the Grief Over a Pet Easier?

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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 [...]

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Grief is grief…or is it?

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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 [...]

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