Death And Grief
Caring for a Dying Animal
The time around an animal's transition can be a period of greater closeness for the animal and his person as well as a time of growth and transformation; for this reason working with people and their animals during this period is very rewarding. Animal communication, Reiki, and flower essences help people and their animals to be able to move through an animal's transition with greater ease and peace.
When an animal is approaching his transition, communication is reassuring for both the animal and his person. Animals often have important matters they want to talk about with their people as they prepare to leave this world. These matters can involve their physical comfort, the effects of treatments and/or medications, eating issues, and important emotional and spiritual matters they want to share with their people before they leave.
Communicating with an animal assists people in understanding how to help their companion be comfortable at the end of his life and, along with Reiki and flower essences, helps the transition to be as easy and peaceful as possible for everyone. Most importantly, communication helps the animal and the person to share their hearts with each other so that each can have comfort and a sense of completion as their time together in a physical form draws to an end.
Resources:
Tributes and Stories:
Click here for tributes and stories people have written for and about their beloved companions.
Links:
- www.anaflora.com This site has an excellent and very moving section on grieving, the process of death, and what can be done to help a beloved companion facing his transition, called Grieving the Loss of a Loved Animal. See especially Sharon Calalhan's articles, “The Care and Feeding of an Animal Soul” and “When a Beloved Friend Dies or is Dying.”
- www.blessingthebridge.com This site accompanies the book, Blessing the Bridge: What Animals Teach Us About Death, Dying, and the Beyond. The author, Rita Reynolds, has many beautiful stories and information from her experience providing hospice care to animals at her sanctuary in Virginia and to many other animals as well.
Readings on Death and on Hospice Care
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- Blessing the Bridge-What Animals Have To Teach Us About Death, by Rita Reynolds, New World Library, Novato, California, 2001.
- Animals and the Afterlife, by Kim Sheridan, EnLighthouse Publishing, Escondido, California, 2003.
- The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, by Sogyal Rinpoche, Harper Collins Publishers, New York, New York, 2002.
- On Death and Dying, by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D., Simon & Schuster, New York, New York, 1969.
- The Tunnel and the Light, by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D., Marlow & Co., New York, New York, 1999.
- see also "When a Beloved Friend Dies or is Dying," by Sharon Callahan at www.anaflora.com
Resources in the San Francisco Bay Area:
For other resources, please see the "Resources" section of this website.
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