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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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