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Old June 29th 04, 07:06 PM
Mary H Healey
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Default Memorializing pets

Common practice, I'm led to understand, is for a deceased pet to be
cremated and the ashes returned to the owner. I suppose there's some
closure in distributing a pet's mortal bits over an emotive landmark, or
in collecting a life's worth of companions to inter them with their
human (or mix/scatter the lot).

The practice doesn't appeal to me, though. I have memento galore of the
critters' presence in my life, a ceremonial urn is just one more thing
to gather dust, and physical landmarks can become distant, rarely
visited, or altered beyond recognition.

My vet does a nice "pawprint" token; the pet's pawprint in clay.

Most of what I have of Sam, I carry in my head. He wasn't a place, or a
handful of dust, or a bit of clay and I don't need any of those things
to put myself in mind of him.

What sorts of memorials comfort you? Why?

 




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