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Trigger warning: This post deals with an account of suicide and euthanasia.
“Kindness can be its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.” ~Eric Hoffer
The first time I sat with a person contemplating suicide, I had no idea until it was too late.
I think about her often. She was a stranger. She was alone.
She called the emergency animal hospital where I worked in Colorado wondering if our doctors would be able to put her little dog “Rabbit” to sleep if she could not find a home for him.
You see, Rabbit was seven years old, looked like a little white westie mix, and had two heart conditions for which he needed medication.
The woman told me she was being forced into a nursing home. She was at least seventy years old, walked with…
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Trigger warning: This post deals with an account of suicide and euthanasia.
“Kindness can be its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.” ~Eric Hoffer
The first time I sat with a person contemplating suicide, I had no idea until it was too late.
I think about her often. She was a stranger. She was alone.
She called the emergency animal hospital where I worked in Colorado wondering if our doctors would be able to put her little dog “Rabbit” to sleep if she could not find a home for him.
You see, Rabbit was seven years old, looked like a little white westie mix, and had two heart conditions for which he needed medication.
The woman told me she was being forced into a nursing home. She was at least seventy years old, walked with…
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