on "How To Deal With Grief", in terms of a loss of a pet.
One thing that stayed with me was this point by the vet: she spoke about the varying personal attitudes towards euthanasia. On how it is a good choice to prevent an animal from suffering, when all treatment has failed. However, vets also face the unpleasant task of euthanasing perfectly healthy animals, due to behavioural issues like biting, barking.
In her opinion, when faced with putting down a dog with a biting issue versus subjecting it to 10 years living in a dog shelter - she will choose to put it to sleep.
10 years living in a small dog shelter. That, to her, is not life.
It got me thinking again of our dogs back home.
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The same applies to human being too.When a person is hooked onto life support machine, suffering from cancer, people with special needs, living in nursing home etc, we wonder about their quality of life & we have the tendency to want to play God? Euthansia...who decides when a life is not a life?
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