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My cat just died. What is the point of all this? (programming.dev)

submitted 10 months ago by lowleveldata@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Do we just live and suffer and die?

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[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah pretty much. What you do in the meantime is up to you.

Pets are particularly weird because we get them knowing damn well we will outlive them. I view it as giving the little babies as close to a perfect life, and as comfortable a passing as pawssible.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 9 months ago

If we could set the lifespan of our pets, how would we? On one hand, giving them as much time as possible seems like a no-brainer. On the other, it's a lot more weighty to get a pet that you have to keep forever and maybe pass on to children.