Knowing the time is a decision made with the heart as well as with the mind and pocketbook. She was sleeping a lot these last 6 months, then about 10 days ago vomited, then her hind legs buckled when she would try to get up, and she seemed to be confused.
The morning of the appointment, I let her in the back yard and when I called her to come inside, she didn't heed my call but looked unsure and puzzled. Her behavior had become strange and she was not herself either with me or her Pekingese pals. I dreaded the thought that she would suffer at some time such as a weekend and or at night necessitating an emergency run to the vet.
If I did not have my other pets, Pekingese, in my care or if she was not a hard to lift and handle medium 50 lb one of a kind breed and if she were the only pet in my home, then I might have waited until her natural death closed her down.
It is a difficult decision since it is an emotional one. My home is different now. Filled with memories of a life well lived, rather than a life that might have a problem causing end which would create a very bad memory for me and suffering for her.
She was a friend. A close companion who became a part of my life these last 14 years. Life’s beginnings and life’s endings, eschatology, define the cycles that measure our existence in time and space, the linear distance between two points (events). Without events, life would be meaningless and empty.
Condolences in time of grief and loss are appreciated, thank you. My friend was upset and couldn't understand why I didn't pay the vet $100 to have her body cremated and was disapproving of my choice to bury her in a space most meaningful to me in my yard. I just couldn't let go but wanted her remains to become part of what surrounds me just as she was always around me while living. Annie..She was heart and soul a red blooded American .... give to me by a 6th generation descendant of the Davy Crockett family even. She is a legend that still lives on.
Cremains versus remains and then what to do with them. One defining attribute that distinguished one native American Indian Nation from another was the rites and rituals for their dead and it is the same all around the globe for the many different religions that now exist. I have been told that the Jewish religion has the most rites and rituals. Since there is simply not enough land space to accommodate the dead of the future, cremation does seem to be the logical, most sanitary, affordable, and civilized means of disposition of the dead, but somehow I prefer to be
buried traditionally. My friend who is an advocate of cremation, has completed papers to donate her body to science. Farming and harvesting organs is for some a way of ensuring a better future for the recipients
while uplifting the donor's survivors feelings and consoling their loss of a loved one.
I don’t believe DNA can be obtained from cremains, but it can be retrieved from the buried. Perhaps, DNA samples will be required and stored for all future bodies whatever the choice of disposition of the leftovers after life ends. It would be an improvement to have the identity of new births paired to the identity of deaths for many reasons of accounting with integrity for social systems responsible for civilized management of large populations.
The morning of the appointment, I let her in the back yard and when I called her to come inside, she didn't heed my call but looked unsure and puzzled. Her behavior had become strange and she was not herself either with me or her Pekingese pals. I dreaded the thought that she would suffer at some time such as a weekend and or at night necessitating an emergency run to the vet.
If I did not have my other pets, Pekingese, in my care or if she was not a hard to lift and handle medium 50 lb one of a kind breed and if she were the only pet in my home, then I might have waited until her natural death closed her down.
It is a difficult decision since it is an emotional one. My home is different now. Filled with memories of a life well lived, rather than a life that might have a problem causing end which would create a very bad memory for me and suffering for her.
She was a friend. A close companion who became a part of my life these last 14 years. Life’s beginnings and life’s endings, eschatology, define the cycles that measure our existence in time and space, the linear distance between two points (events). Without events, life would be meaningless and empty.
Condolences in time of grief and loss are appreciated, thank you. My friend was upset and couldn't understand why I didn't pay the vet $100 to have her body cremated and was disapproving of my choice to bury her in a space most meaningful to me in my yard. I just couldn't let go but wanted her remains to become part of what surrounds me just as she was always around me while living. Annie..She was heart and soul a red blooded American .... give to me by a 6th generation descendant of the Davy Crockett family even. She is a legend that still lives on.
Cremains versus remains and then what to do with them. One defining attribute that distinguished one native American Indian Nation from another was the rites and rituals for their dead and it is the same all around the globe for the many different religions that now exist. I have been told that the Jewish religion has the most rites and rituals. Since there is simply not enough land space to accommodate the dead of the future, cremation does seem to be the logical, most sanitary, affordable, and civilized means of disposition of the dead, but somehow I prefer to be
buried traditionally. My friend who is an advocate of cremation, has completed papers to donate her body to science. Farming and harvesting organs is for some a way of ensuring a better future for the recipients
while uplifting the donor's survivors feelings and consoling their loss of a loved one.
I don’t believe DNA can be obtained from cremains, but it can be retrieved from the buried. Perhaps, DNA samples will be required and stored for all future bodies whatever the choice of disposition of the leftovers after life ends. It would be an improvement to have the identity of new births paired to the identity of deaths for many reasons of accounting with integrity for social systems responsible for civilized management of large populations.
