{"id":277679,"date":"2022-11-09T11:05:33","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T11:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=277679"},"modified":"2022-11-09T11:32:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T11:32:27","slug":"saying-farewell-to-a-pet-isn-t-easy-but-planning-can-make-the-experience-meaningful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/saying-farewell-to-a-pet-isn-t-easy-but-planning-can-make-the-experience-meaningful","title":{"rendered":"Saying farewell to a pet isn&#8217;t easy, but planning can make the experience meaningful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen years seems like a long time until you are facing the end of it. The most terrible thing for those of us who love animals is their short lifespan. And when the time comes, it is almost more than we can bear &#8212; even more so when we have been anticipating it. Sometimes pets go downhill quickly after being diagnosed with a disease such as cancer, which develops rapidly or isn&#8217;t caught until it&#8217;s too late for treatment. Or old age finally catches up with them. That&#8217;s brutal enough. But sometimes, I think, the anticipatory grief that accompanies a pet&#8217;s terminal diagnosis is more insidious. The roller coaster of grief that we ride between diagnosis and their last day seems never-ending. Anticipatory grief is defined as the realization that a being is mortal, whether a parent, sibling, child, or pet. For us, the first pangs of anticipatory grief struck when our dog Harper was diagnosed with congestive heart failure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen years seems like a long time until you are facing the end of it. The most terrible thing for those of us who love animals is their short lifespan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}