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Which is the worst?
Your dog dying suddenly without your having a chance to say goodbye but without experiencing a lot of pain or discomfort...
OR
Your dog dying a slow death (lasting a week or so) with pain and discomfort, but you get a chance to prepare and say goodbye...
OR
Your dog dying a slow death that lasts months with some good days and some bad days, with the good days becoming more and more infrequent, but you get a chance to prepare and say goodbye, but you have to watch the pain and constantly wonder if you should just let go.
Yeah, I'm being morbid. This is prompted by another thread....and I hope the OP doesn't read this thread because I know it certainly wouldn't be helpful to her. I just can't help wondering what I would do if I were in any of the above situations. Those kind of things were running through my mind while I was waiting for the results on the heartworm tests my dogs had a couple of days ago. Both tests came back negative, but my imagination is rich and it kept going long after the test results came in.
In some ways, I'd prefer to go before my dogs because I don't want to endure their deaths. Then again, I want to be the one who cares for them for their entire lives. Perhaps we'll get lucky and we'll all three get wiped out at the same time?
Which smilie would be appropriate to express the idea of being morbid?
Your dog dying suddenly without your having a chance to say goodbye but without experiencing a lot of pain or discomfort...
OR
Your dog dying a slow death (lasting a week or so) with pain and discomfort, but you get a chance to prepare and say goodbye...
OR
Your dog dying a slow death that lasts months with some good days and some bad days, with the good days becoming more and more infrequent, but you get a chance to prepare and say goodbye, but you have to watch the pain and constantly wonder if you should just let go.
Yeah, I'm being morbid. This is prompted by another thread....and I hope the OP doesn't read this thread because I know it certainly wouldn't be helpful to her. I just can't help wondering what I would do if I were in any of the above situations. Those kind of things were running through my mind while I was waiting for the results on the heartworm tests my dogs had a couple of days ago. Both tests came back negative, but my imagination is rich and it kept going long after the test results came in.
In some ways, I'd prefer to go before my dogs because I don't want to endure their deaths. Then again, I want to be the one who cares for them for their entire lives. Perhaps we'll get lucky and we'll all three get wiped out at the same time?
Which smilie would be appropriate to express the idea of being morbid?