Ogre, I think the mortality of human beings, or even our pets, is just so deeply disturbing on so many levels. I get so melancholy when I think of the loss of my loved ones..Do you know that song by Jimmy Buffett.."Yes , I am a pirate born two hundred years too late. Canons don't thunder and there's nothing to plunder. I'm an over 40 victim of fate....made enough money to buy Miami but pissed it away so fast..." see if you can pull it up and listen to it if you don't recall how sweet a song it is...
My dad is 81 and mom died three years ago..he moped around for a year and then found a 65 yr old child...He is chasing her around the country all of the time and having a great time...I'm just happy that he is healthy and happy...God bless our time on this earth...cause we never know what is coming around that corner...life is absolutely capricious...