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One weird, ugly detail about considering putting a pet to sleep: remember all those time they *hated* going to the vet? This last time makes all the previous vet fear and loathing somehow justified, retroactively.

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It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality.

Kinda poignant for today. (2019 update: this was about the day of his death.)