There's a wrenching family-dog-death thread in GD.
Can't bring myself to join in. I (deeply) feel it. Too painful. In no way anything critical here.
I'll just say that lots of the companion animal threads especially in Lounge are too much for me to join in. Like the ASPCA advertisements.
I've been companioned by seven dogs over my lifetime, with all the associated experiences - puppies, deaths, health crises, putting to sleep. Everything on the scale from happy to wrenching.
I had my own original thought last year when somebody close died the horrible covid death - alone in the hospital, well with the wonderful hospital people, then the waiting lists for funeral arrangements, horrible refrigerated trucks, all that incredible crap that so many of us went through.
And at some point I had that thought: If only I had been even more open and kinder and explicit about my love. And I had the follow-up thought, which Barrack OBAMA a few months ago put into words, MY words: If only we all expressed our love for our closest humans when we had the chance that we do for our companion animals. All the petting, grooming, playing, gazing to do for one another that we do for our companion animals.
I'm sure some/many people do so and that many others have learned that lesson from our past year.
Before the covid, when BOURDAIN died, some DUers here posted about watching the re-runs. I couldn't, too painful. I will never watch BOURDAIN again.
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