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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Only if you would do the same for parents or your children or spouse. You'd do that, right?[/quote]

You're nuts. A miserable animal doesn't know that you are trying to help it, or that they will have a longer life if they endure dialysis or whatever. They just know they are miserable.[/quote]

However you want to rationalize your abject cruelty, OP.[/quote]

A death with dignity is NOT abject cruelty. Planning the end of life is becoming more and more acceptable and not just for patients terminal within 6 months.

I’ve worked hospice for well over a decade now and I personally think our pets are very lucky indeed - at least, those whose owners don’t put them through every possible intervention to try to prolong life by a few months without any consideration of the quality of life the treatments are creating.

I’ve seen humans endure awful suffering and loss of personal dignity because we have some warped notion that every bit of life quantity is worthwhile no matter how awful the quality of it.

I have my plan in mind and will choose the time and manner of my exit from this world. I’ve never let my pets endure a slow agonizing decline and death and I won’t put myself through that, either.[/quote]

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