tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post2048103968670782634..comments2024-03-28T15:01:21.285-04:00Comments on SleuthSayers: Death comes in...Leigh Lundinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07921276795499571578noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-83321361397619011302018-05-13T23:48:44.204-04:002018-05-13T23:48:44.204-04:00O'Neil - such a moving comment. Thank you.
Ev...O'Neil - such a moving comment. Thank you. <br />Eve - so true. And yet the price...<br />Leigh - exactly - how can you kill without suffering the cost?<br />Melodie - Be there. I couldn't have put it better. Thank you. Mary Fernandohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14095691813967544051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-15971980918653822982018-05-13T21:03:44.607-04:002018-05-13T21:03:44.607-04:00Mary, I was a hospital director for many years, an...Mary, I was a hospital director for many years, and then a homecare director. You have put this so well. The one thing I've learned: be there. As much as it hurts you, be there. Don't let pets or people die alone.Melodie Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07870938103759179132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-38022056037987136172018-05-13T20:56:41.135-04:002018-05-13T20:56:41.135-04:00Throughout the article, I found myself nodding my ...Throughout the article, I found myself nodding my head. Then I read O'Neil's comment about animals locking eyes and damn, been there, done that, it choked me up.<br /><br />Raised in the country, I worked with veterinarians and have given my own charges injections and first aid. While auditing an animal medicine course at Ohio State long ago, I learned why superglue should be in first aid kits long before it was okayed for humans. I didn't know of the high suicide rate among vets, but I can understand.<br /><br />Animals often know when we're trying to help them, they trust us, walking demigods. But when we know we can't help… our hurt/angry feelings never leaves us. How much worse is it to take another human's life?<br /><br />Politicians who find it so easy to campaign for death penalties to prove how tough they are… how dead are their souls?<br />Leigh Lundinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07921276795499571578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-52169805344942385832018-05-13T10:17:19.460-04:002018-05-13T10:17:19.460-04:00My mother, God rest her soul, was in her 80s, weig...My mother, God rest her soul, was in her 80s, weighing 80-something pounds, suffering from multiple fractures from osteoporosis, and she desperately wanted me to find Dr. Kevorkian for her. Or do the job myself. I couldn't do either. Death is hard, but sometimes life is harder. I thank God - and so did my mother - that the vets could do for animals what we apparently can't do for ourselves.Eve Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03015761600962360110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-39240125690657714182018-05-13T09:15:37.281-04:002018-05-13T09:15:37.281-04:00You are so right. Death is always ugly. As a polic...You are so right. Death is always ugly. As a policeman I saw people die. As a homicide detective I saw the aftermath, witnessing autopsies. When I was young and I hunted, I saw animals die. Alway ugly. Always painful. Always hideous. I stopped hunting. It's horrible watching my cats die in a vet's office or watching them die here at home. They are with us for too short a time. Their eyes lock with ours. Comfort? There is no comfort. They know something is dreadfully wrong and we know exactly what is happening. And then they are gone but never gone in our memories. Maybe that is one of the secrets of life - remembering the ones we've lost - while holding on the ones we have. Older folks like me with mother's long gone remember on Mother's Day the one who brought us into the world. Gone but never far from our thoughts. We remember the joyful times together, mixed with the sweet sorry of loss.O'Neil De Nouxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03142721824657611738noreply@blogger.com