“An exquisite, uncommon, and therapeutic e book, filled with knowledge and compassion.”—Sy Montgomery.

By Zazie Todd PhD

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This month, the Animal Guide Membership is studying Good Grief: On Loving Pets, Right here and Hereafter by E.B. Bartels.

From the writer,

“An surprising, poignant, and private account of loving and shedding pets, exploring the singular bonds we have now with our companion animals, and grieve them as soon as they’ve handed.

E.B. Bartels has had a number of pets—canine, birds, fish, tortoises. As assorted a bunch as they’re, they’ve taught her one common fact: to personal a pet is to like a pet, and to personal a pet can also be—with uncommon exception—to lose that pet in time.

However whereas we have now codified traditions to mark the passing of our fellow people, most cultures don’t have the identical for pets. Bartels takes us from Massachusetts to Japan, from historic Egypt to the trendy period, seeking the great pet dying. We meet veterinarians, archaeologists, ministers, and extra, providing an idiosyncratic, inspiring array of rituals—from the standard (scattering ashes, commissioning a portrait), to the grand (funereal processions, mausoleums), to the surprising (taxidermy, cloning). The central lesson: there isn’t a greatest apply with regards to mourning your pet, besides to look after them in dying as you probably did in life, and discover the house to take part of their finish as totally as you may.

Punctuated by wry, bighearted accounts of Bartels’s personal pets and their deaths, Good Grief is a cathartic companion by loving and shedding our animal household.”

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The primary sentence of the introduction to Good Grief.

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