I feel this is a safe place to say, for years now I have cared for (the Beings Rights in me says, cannot own nature, thus Living Beings) a dog in Hospice status, example literally, walking skeleton)…
…& as in my profile, I am about to put the dog down, been thinking, thus crying about this for weeks, had the standard for the decision decided for months & for weeks known it was going to happen, crying right now.
I am also a diehard not Religious person-Everyone has the most powerful thing we know, just different degrees of us understanding it & working through it’s limitations, as all of them have Challenges, to us. What are they? They are all of our brains/minds, together they are even more powerful, then as individuals. So when I put her life to an end, we will never know each other again!
I have told everyone it has to be an emotional free/logical decision, to reach the right as possible time; but doing so hardest thing in the world! I HATE HAVING TO CHOOSE DEATH FOR OTHERS WHO NEED IT, BUT CANNOT THEMSELVES! Done it for way too many animals I care for, because live in Unincorporated, Ag. & Politically Right dominated area. Thankfully, I choose to not over being too emotional, in such decisions & situations, comfort zone. Have had relatives (even in the same household) react emotionally & try to either race the dog to her death, way too soon or prevent me from creating the standards with The Vet., though last week, the dog’s suffering is in everyone’s face.
But I wish, I could switch back & forth to & from my Mr. Spock a lot less emotional brain, back to my level head, but more emotional. Both are needed for healing.
I have had to put down loved ones. I came to understand that it is morally wrong to create an intelligent creature and force it to be dependent on you. It is morally wrong to create the situation where one has to make these decisions for another.
If I understand your reply, which is shocking to me.
Morally Wrong!?!?!?!?
Is it morally right to let them suffered, to an horrible death, like would happen if the animal was a wild animal suffering for the same problem- killing the animal? starving to death as that animal’s own family/pack members take the food she can no longer consume? or killed for food, by the superior predator?
I think you have misunderstood. At least, I have no idea what you are saying or how it relates to my claims. I said nothing about the act of euthanasia. It is indeed necessary, but only because of choices that were made long prior that were totally unnecessary and were not made with that individual’s interests in mind. Like I clearly wrote, it is morally wrong TO CREATE THAT SITUATION, where you will inevitably have to make a choice about another individual’s life and death. When it comes time to make that decision, the immoral act has already occurred.
Oh, okay, thank you, for clearing-up most it.
“choices that were made long prior that were totally unnecessary and were not made with that individual’s interests in mind.”
What choices? By whom? Are you talking regiliously, a higher being?
Maybe. I mean, on the one hand, undeniably yes, while on the other hand, cats in particular are simply too numerous in most spaces, and dogs are even an entire species altered to the whims of humankind, so given that existing backstory, which is least morally repugnant, to entertain their dependency or to now suddenly leave them to their own devices?
Either way I am glad that you are someone who wrestles with moral choices. Whether we end up agreeing on the outcome of those or not, I think that caring beats uncaring anytime.
We don’t “leave them to their own devices”, we stop forcing them to exist for the purposes of human exploitation. Those animals which are already dependent on humans for their wellness are not the animals I am discussing. They have already been horribly maimed, and they deserve our care. Indeed, ALL the animals we create are owed the exact same unconditional love and protection as our own children. But we should not be creating them in the first place.