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The Grief of Losing a Pet Is Traumatic and Universal. So Why Don't We Talk About It?

By Eliza Henry-Jones — 2016

Animals are accepted as part of the family but there is an overwhelming perception that mourning their loss is not truly valid. That needs to change.

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A Heartfelt Appeal for a Graceful Exit

Studies of dying patients who seek a hastened death have shown that their reasons often go beyond physical ones like intractable pain or emotional ones like feeling hopeless.

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Jane E. Brody
2008
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Terminal Options for the Irreversibly Ill

My Feb. 5 column, “A Heartfelt Appeal for a Graceful Exit,” prompted a deluge of information and requests for information on how people too sick to reap meaningful pleasure from life might be able to control their death.

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Jane E. Brody
2008
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Death or Loss of an Animal Companion