Online Course: Across the Rainbow Bridge: Grieving the Death of a Pet

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For most of us, the loss of an animal will be our first experience with death. In this way, animals give us a most precious and intimate gift, the opportunity to learn how to live through grief, and to learn that we can live through grief. If we diminish the loss in our own eyes, subdue it, tell ourselves it has no meaning, then we will deflate the enormous value of this gift. Not only does the animal-human bond defy statistics and numbers and double-blind studies, but it defies words as well. The relationship we experience with our pets can sometimes be among the deepest ones we will ever experience in our lives.